Residents voted last year to audit the police department in Canton, Massachusetts, amid the Karen Read case
A meeting Thursday in Canton, Massachusetts, became heated as participants discussed how to move forward with an audit of the town's police department.Since then, the murder trial against Read ended with a hung jury, the Norfolk County District Attorney's Office committed to retry the case, and theProsecutors accused Read of killing her boyfriend, Boston Police Officer John O'Keefe, and leaving him to die in the snow in January of 2022.
After Massachusetts State Police suspended Michael Proctor without pay, Canton officials revealed the trooper's testimony led that town's police department to place an officer, the brother of Brian Albert, on leave., a Stoughton police officer, accusing him of killing Birchmore and staging her Canton apartment to make it appear she had died by suicide. Canton police found her body during a wellness check.
On Thursday, the five members of the Canton Police Audit Committee sat down to discuss the scope of services to help the town decide on a firm to conduct the audit. Some hot button issues discussed include the duration and price of the audit. Members of the committee openly and passionately disagreed among themselves several times during the meeting. Some community members also voiced their frustrations.
Committee members say they hope to have the bids in by the end of September, and to have a firm get the audit started by November.
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