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Princeton Borough Police Chief Anthony Federico said he arrived Monday night at the First Baptist Church expecting to field basic inquiries about how his department functions.
Instead, he faced often accusatory questions and comments, most of which stemmed from a recent incident at Princeton High School.
In September, borough police officers removed four black students from class. Police said witnesses placed the four students at the scene of an earlier assault on Franklin Avenue, and the 14- and 15-year-olds were subsequently charged with complicity to robbery.
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Capital News 9 - Albany,NY,USA
25 January 2007
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State police investigate Schen
85 units of crack cocaine. That's what the Schenectady Police Department can't seem to sniff out.
The trouble is the police had possession of the drugs after seizing the crack last summer from a house on Lincoln Avenue. They were supposed to submit it as evidence against suspected dealer Anthony Best.
But without the drugs, the case against Best is a bust.
"Officers put their lives on the line to make arrests, to develop information, and it's very, very frustrating," said Schenectady Police Chief Michael Geraci.
The disappearing drugs have also sparked a State Police investigation into every aspect of the Schenectady department's evidence handling and storage. This is something both Chief Geraci and District Attorney Robert Carney support, especially because they think evidence in up to four other cases could be missing, and defense attorneys could demand to see it more often as a result.
"I have no doubt that that will impact the progress of criminal prosecutions. All the more reason we get to the bottom of this as quickly as we can," Carney said.
Schenectady Mayor Brian Stratton is also in favor of the plan to have the State Police conduct their own, independent investigation. While he was away on other business in Washington, D.C., Stratton released a statement saying it is absolutely essential to the integrity of the Schenectady Police Department that the investigation be conducted by an independent and objective law enforcement agency.
The investigation will also look for any criminal activity.
"My office will prosecute those responsible," Carney said.
"You get over anger and some of those initial feelings, and it moves to one of betrayal if, in fact, we find that it's an internal problem," Geraci said.
They said it is critical to catch whoever is responsible in order to save the rest of the force from being smeared in scandal.
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