Posted Jul 28, 2010 @ 05:48 AM
Last update Jul 28, 2010 @ 07:21 AM
New Stoughton Police Chief Paul Shastany has taken over a police department stained in the past with corruption and internal rivalries.
His years of experience and status as an outsider have gone a long way toward returning respectability to local police. That doesn’t mean there won’t be problems along the way; but the hope is that Shastany deals with them swiftly and wisely.
That appears to be the case in the recent scandal involving former Stoughton police officer Richard Bennett and Bridget “The Midget” Powers, a 3-foot-9 adult film star performing at local strip club Alex’s.
Bennett showed up at the club one night, in uniform and on duty, and had his picture taken with Powers. He was already under investigation for altering his police firearm and, after showing the Powers photo around the police station, other officers reported him.