You have indicated your intent to mark all state police patrol cars with a state police decal. We understand that one of the reasons the department did not mark cars in the past was the cost associated with doing this. The department had only 967 troopers in October 1997. It now has approximately 1121. Do you plan to make minority hiring one of your priorities.
Current law requires people convicted of sex crimes to submit a DNA sample for the state's DNA bank.
Some states have been discussing the idea of expanding the law to other crimes. A 1999 law prohibits police departments from engaging in racial profiling and temporarily requires them to collect traffic stops data. A 1999 law allows police officers to seize guns, under certain limited circumstances, from people at risk of harming themselves or others. Within 10 months of the effective date, police departments had used the law at least 27 times. Some people suggest that it is being overused.