Watch Governor Lamont's response to the recent crime surge in Connecticut

Connecticut Republican Party
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And do you have any response to the people who might be a little bit frustrated that
the special session is not going to include some of the other topics that people were hoping for,
whether it be CPI or addressing crime in the state?
They can discuss anything they'd like to. Right now, it seemed to me that on crime,
we've done what we can do here. I haven't heard any specific proposals that anybody
wanted to discuss that require a full legislative review. But that's something that they can
consider. What I have done is that we've, in a municipality's call, and they asked for money
to help with overtime for police. We said, here's money for overtime for police. They've asked for
additional support from our state police. They said, here's additional support for our state
police. They said, we need help for wraparound services, social services, mentors, support for
a lot of those first and second time offenders. We've given tens of millions of dollars additional
for that. And speaking of which, community policing is primarily a municipal function.
So we've given about $500 million, federal money primarily, to our towns and municipalities. And
I would think that many of them would think about adding to their police forces and get more
community policing on the ground. That's a long answer to your question,
but I think at this point, I haven't heard of any specific suggestions that require immediate action.
