Connecticut judge ends 50 years of federal oversight of Hartford police

• U.S. District Judge Kari Dooley issued a 10-page ruling Friday approving the dissolution of a 1973 consent decree requiring federal oversight of Connecticut's Hartford Police Department. • The original decree was established following a 1969 lawsuit accusing Hartford police of racially-motivated violence, intimidation and humiliation. • "The conditions present in 1969 that led to the federal jurisdiction are no longer present," lawyers representing Connecticut's capital city noted. "Simply put, over 50 years of litigation has exhausted any basis for continuing jurisdiction over this matter." A judge has ended the...