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Boston Globe
2 days ago
- Politics
- Boston Globe
Providence police oversight board slams department for ‘internal failures'
The three-page statement from the oversight board criticizing the city police on Friday afternoon came in light of the Get Rhode Map A weekday briefing from veteran Rhode Island reporters, focused on the things that matter most in the Ocean State. Enter Email Sign Up Hanley's reinstatement 'should come as no surprise to anyone familiar with the structural deficiencies in Rhode Island's police accountability framework,' the oversight board wrote. 'His return to duty, despite his admission to serious allegations of misconduct and a dissenting opinion from a high-ranking police official, reflects the deep-rooted ineffectiveness of current oversight mechanisms.' Advertisement The PERA board is a civilian panel created in 2002 that investigates alleged misconduct by Providence police officers and reviews policies, making recommendations for discipline, policy changes and training. While the group is ultimately advisory, the police department is required to cooperate with its work, and its findings and recommendations are made public. Advertisement The board members are unpaid, but currently has three staff members including an executive director, an administrative assistant and one investigator. Karoly, the executive director, is a lawyer and former deputy chief of the Middletown Police Department. In its letter, the panel claims the police department has ignored the majority of its policy recommendations, and also has not responded to a request to come up with a 'disciplinary matrix,' essentially a guideline for officer misconduct that lays out the recommended punishment for each offense, from harassment to excessive use of force. The ordinance that created the oversight board says the matrix should be developed by the board and the chief of police. 'We submitted one several years ago, and they've just never approved it,' Karoly said. 'It's just kind of stayed in limbo.' Multiple recommendations also went unanswered or were denied, Karoly said. Josh Estrella, a spokesperson for the city, said the police department has responded to policy recommendations, as recently as March of this year. 'The Department has been actively working on a matrix and will continue to respond to PERA's recommendations formally as it relates to discipline or policy,' Estrella said. 'The Providence Police Department remains committed to transparency, accountability and strengthening public trust.' He said the review authority's budget, along with other department budgets, was cut based on 'actual expenditures,' which were lower than the board's budget. Advertisement The budget cuts will limit the group's 'ability to conduct hearings and fulfill our oversight responsibilities,' members wrote. 'These actions do not reflect a commitment to accountability — they are deliberate obstructions.' The oversight board members also said the police department has repeatedly obstructed their investigations, sometimes taking more than a year to provide evidence so the board can review alleged misconduct. In one case, the board said it investigated a complaint from a person who was videotaping and 'verbally criticizing' a sergeant who was arresting someone on Broad Street in 2023. The findings, released May 6, said it took until December 2024 – more than a year – for police to share the case file for the PERA investigator to review. According to the board's findings, the person who was filming the arrest was 20 feet away and did not get in the way of the police, but the sergeant — whose name is redacted — kept engaging with him and 'bumping him with his chest' before having him arrested for disorderly conduct. The charge was later dropped. The police department's internal investigation found the accusations of wrongdoing against the officer were sustained, and gave him a verbal reprimand, according to the oversight board's findings. The board recommended that the punishment be modified to a five-day suspension and eight hours of retraining, but has so far been ignored, Friday's letter claims. 'Instead of cooperation, we have encountered resistance,' the civilian panel wrote. 'The Providence police department must acknowledge and correct its internal failures.' One of the board-recommended changes to the ordinance that created the Providence External Review Authority is that staff be given 'full user access' to police records, including internal investigations and the body-worn camera system, 'so that PERA may efficiently review and or audit all police internal investigations as well as complete its own investigations.' Advertisement The review authority staff members would be 'subject to the same confidentiality requirements as police users and will not disclose personally identifiable information except as allowed by law,' the proposed ordinance says. The oversight board has fought to get evidence in the past. When the city refused for months to release the Then-executive director Jose Batista, who is also a state representative, publicly released the video and was ultimately fired for doing so. (Batista sued for wrongful termination, and later settled with the city for $45,000.) The oversight board was not conducting investigations for a period of time after Batista's firing, but has ramped up its activities under Karoly. Last week, PERA said it would investigate Providence police officers' Related : The letter also criticizes the state law formerly known as the Law Enforcement Officers' Bill of Rights, or LEOBOR, which allowed Hanley to return to the force by leaving the decision to a panel of law enforcement officers, not the chief of police. The vote was 2 to 1 to reinstate Hanley. Advertisement While the law was recently But the state law alone cannot be blamed, the panel said. 'Accountability starts at the departmental level, and the issues raised in Sgt. Hanley's case reflect a broader failure within the Providence Police Department,' the board's letter said, citing Deputy Chief Timothy O'Hara's dissent in the LEOBOR case, which stated Hanley was 'a man prone to volatility, a man prone to violence, a man prone to vulgarity, a man prone to untruthfulness, and a man accustomed to lying.' 'The fact that Hanley achieved the rank of Sergeant, served in the Detective Bureau, and held supervisory responsibilities despite internal concerns about his behavior raises troubling questions,' the board wrote. 'We are ready to do our part,' board members said. 'But we cannot improve policing in Providence without the tools, cooperation, and political will necessary to challenge the status quo. The community deserves better — and we will continue to fight for it." Steph Machado can be reached at
The Advertiser
17-07-2025
- Automotive
- The Advertiser
Toyota LandCruiser 70 Series hit with another order pause
The battle between strong demand and insufficient supply has affected the Toyota LandCruiser 70 Series once again. Toyota Australia has confirmed it's pausing customer orders for the 70 Series… but only in GXL Wagon guise. It says the move to pause orders is intended to provide customers with "more certainty around delivery times for existing orders". "We know in the past, particularly through the COVID-19 pandemic and during the global semi-conductor supply shortage, vehicle supply challenges caused a degree of frustration with our customers with wait times for delivery of new vehicles being extended significantly," said Sean Hanley, Toyota Australia vice president for sales, marketing and franchise operations. Hundreds of new car deals are available through CarExpert right now. Get the experts on your side and score a great deal. Browse now. "We never want to be the cause of that frustration again so together with our dealer network, we are committed to carefully managing any supply issues to provide complete transparency for customers when issues outside our control arise. "We continue to work with our parent company in Japan to optimise production and supply levels of all Toyota vehicles to ensure we can deliver and satisfy Australian customer demands." The rest of the range is unaffected, and Toyota Australia says it has "good supply" of all other LC70 variants. It even says certain variants are in stock for immediate delivery, or with a maximum wait of between two and four months for new orders. That's a far cry from the supply situation for the old V8-powered LandCruiser 70 Series. Toyota Australia paused orders for the V8 LC70 in July 2022, before closing them for good midway through 2024 as it worked to clear a significant back-order bank. At one point, dealers were quoting wait times of four years "or never" for the venerable V8. All LandCruiser 70 Series variants now come standard with a 2.8-litre turbo-diesel four-cylinder engine as seen in the HiLux and Prado, first made available here in late 2023. This brought an automatic transmission to the 70 Series for the first time (a six-speed unit as standard), and a five-speed manual – like that matched to the now-defunct 4.5-litre turbo-diesel V8 – didn't become available until late 2024. "Since we launched the new four-cylinder LandCruiser 70 Series in late 2023, we have seen its appeal grow for Australian customers with strong demand across the entire range," said Mr Hanley. It's a wide range, too. The top GXL trim is offered in Wagon, Troop Carrier and Double Cab Chassis body styles with the choice of manual or automatic transmissions. The base WorkMate trim can be had with a manual or auto in either Troop Carrier or Double Cab Chassis configurations, while the WorkMate wagon and WorkMate, GX and GXL Single Cab Chassis variants are auto-only. MORE: Explore the Toyota LandCruiser 70 Series showroom Content originally sourced from: The battle between strong demand and insufficient supply has affected the Toyota LandCruiser 70 Series once again. Toyota Australia has confirmed it's pausing customer orders for the 70 Series… but only in GXL Wagon guise. It says the move to pause orders is intended to provide customers with "more certainty around delivery times for existing orders". "We know in the past, particularly through the COVID-19 pandemic and during the global semi-conductor supply shortage, vehicle supply challenges caused a degree of frustration with our customers with wait times for delivery of new vehicles being extended significantly," said Sean Hanley, Toyota Australia vice president for sales, marketing and franchise operations. Hundreds of new car deals are available through CarExpert right now. Get the experts on your side and score a great deal. Browse now. "We never want to be the cause of that frustration again so together with our dealer network, we are committed to carefully managing any supply issues to provide complete transparency for customers when issues outside our control arise. "We continue to work with our parent company in Japan to optimise production and supply levels of all Toyota vehicles to ensure we can deliver and satisfy Australian customer demands." The rest of the range is unaffected, and Toyota Australia says it has "good supply" of all other LC70 variants. It even says certain variants are in stock for immediate delivery, or with a maximum wait of between two and four months for new orders. That's a far cry from the supply situation for the old V8-powered LandCruiser 70 Series. Toyota Australia paused orders for the V8 LC70 in July 2022, before closing them for good midway through 2024 as it worked to clear a significant back-order bank. At one point, dealers were quoting wait times of four years "or never" for the venerable V8. All LandCruiser 70 Series variants now come standard with a 2.8-litre turbo-diesel four-cylinder engine as seen in the HiLux and Prado, first made available here in late 2023. This brought an automatic transmission to the 70 Series for the first time (a six-speed unit as standard), and a five-speed manual – like that matched to the now-defunct 4.5-litre turbo-diesel V8 – didn't become available until late 2024. "Since we launched the new four-cylinder LandCruiser 70 Series in late 2023, we have seen its appeal grow for Australian customers with strong demand across the entire range," said Mr Hanley. It's a wide range, too. The top GXL trim is offered in Wagon, Troop Carrier and Double Cab Chassis body styles with the choice of manual or automatic transmissions. The base WorkMate trim can be had with a manual or auto in either Troop Carrier or Double Cab Chassis configurations, while the WorkMate wagon and WorkMate, GX and GXL Single Cab Chassis variants are auto-only. MORE: Explore the Toyota LandCruiser 70 Series showroom Content originally sourced from: The battle between strong demand and insufficient supply has affected the Toyota LandCruiser 70 Series once again. Toyota Australia has confirmed it's pausing customer orders for the 70 Series… but only in GXL Wagon guise. It says the move to pause orders is intended to provide customers with "more certainty around delivery times for existing orders". "We know in the past, particularly through the COVID-19 pandemic and during the global semi-conductor supply shortage, vehicle supply challenges caused a degree of frustration with our customers with wait times for delivery of new vehicles being extended significantly," said Sean Hanley, Toyota Australia vice president for sales, marketing and franchise operations. Hundreds of new car deals are available through CarExpert right now. Get the experts on your side and score a great deal. Browse now. "We never want to be the cause of that frustration again so together with our dealer network, we are committed to carefully managing any supply issues to provide complete transparency for customers when issues outside our control arise. "We continue to work with our parent company in Japan to optimise production and supply levels of all Toyota vehicles to ensure we can deliver and satisfy Australian customer demands." The rest of the range is unaffected, and Toyota Australia says it has "good supply" of all other LC70 variants. It even says certain variants are in stock for immediate delivery, or with a maximum wait of between two and four months for new orders. That's a far cry from the supply situation for the old V8-powered LandCruiser 70 Series. Toyota Australia paused orders for the V8 LC70 in July 2022, before closing them for good midway through 2024 as it worked to clear a significant back-order bank. At one point, dealers were quoting wait times of four years "or never" for the venerable V8. All LandCruiser 70 Series variants now come standard with a 2.8-litre turbo-diesel four-cylinder engine as seen in the HiLux and Prado, first made available here in late 2023. This brought an automatic transmission to the 70 Series for the first time (a six-speed unit as standard), and a five-speed manual – like that matched to the now-defunct 4.5-litre turbo-diesel V8 – didn't become available until late 2024. "Since we launched the new four-cylinder LandCruiser 70 Series in late 2023, we have seen its appeal grow for Australian customers with strong demand across the entire range," said Mr Hanley. It's a wide range, too. The top GXL trim is offered in Wagon, Troop Carrier and Double Cab Chassis body styles with the choice of manual or automatic transmissions. The base WorkMate trim can be had with a manual or auto in either Troop Carrier or Double Cab Chassis configurations, while the WorkMate wagon and WorkMate, GX and GXL Single Cab Chassis variants are auto-only. MORE: Explore the Toyota LandCruiser 70 Series showroom Content originally sourced from: The battle between strong demand and insufficient supply has affected the Toyota LandCruiser 70 Series once again. Toyota Australia has confirmed it's pausing customer orders for the 70 Series… but only in GXL Wagon guise. It says the move to pause orders is intended to provide customers with "more certainty around delivery times for existing orders". "We know in the past, particularly through the COVID-19 pandemic and during the global semi-conductor supply shortage, vehicle supply challenges caused a degree of frustration with our customers with wait times for delivery of new vehicles being extended significantly," said Sean Hanley, Toyota Australia vice president for sales, marketing and franchise operations. Hundreds of new car deals are available through CarExpert right now. Get the experts on your side and score a great deal. Browse now. "We never want to be the cause of that frustration again so together with our dealer network, we are committed to carefully managing any supply issues to provide complete transparency for customers when issues outside our control arise. "We continue to work with our parent company in Japan to optimise production and supply levels of all Toyota vehicles to ensure we can deliver and satisfy Australian customer demands." The rest of the range is unaffected, and Toyota Australia says it has "good supply" of all other LC70 variants. It even says certain variants are in stock for immediate delivery, or with a maximum wait of between two and four months for new orders. That's a far cry from the supply situation for the old V8-powered LandCruiser 70 Series. Toyota Australia paused orders for the V8 LC70 in July 2022, before closing them for good midway through 2024 as it worked to clear a significant back-order bank. At one point, dealers were quoting wait times of four years "or never" for the venerable V8. All LandCruiser 70 Series variants now come standard with a 2.8-litre turbo-diesel four-cylinder engine as seen in the HiLux and Prado, first made available here in late 2023. This brought an automatic transmission to the 70 Series for the first time (a six-speed unit as standard), and a five-speed manual – like that matched to the now-defunct 4.5-litre turbo-diesel V8 – didn't become available until late 2024. "Since we launched the new four-cylinder LandCruiser 70 Series in late 2023, we have seen its appeal grow for Australian customers with strong demand across the entire range," said Mr Hanley. It's a wide range, too. The top GXL trim is offered in Wagon, Troop Carrier and Double Cab Chassis body styles with the choice of manual or automatic transmissions. The base WorkMate trim can be had with a manual or auto in either Troop Carrier or Double Cab Chassis configurations, while the WorkMate wagon and WorkMate, GX and GXL Single Cab Chassis variants are auto-only. MORE: Explore the Toyota LandCruiser 70 Series showroom Content originally sourced from:
7NEWS
17-07-2025
- Automotive
- 7NEWS
Toyota LandCruiser 70 Series hit with another order pause
The battle between strong demand and insufficient supply has affected the Toyota LandCruiser 70 Series once again. Toyota Australia has confirmed it's pausing customer orders for the 70 Series… but only in GXL Wagon guise. It says the move to pause orders is intended to provide customers with 'more certainty around delivery times for existing orders'. 'We know in the past, particularly through the COVID-19 pandemic and during the global semi-conductor supply shortage, vehicle supply challenges caused a degree of frustration with our customers with wait times for delivery of new vehicles being extended significantly,' said Sean Hanley, Toyota Australia vice president for sales, marketing and franchise operations. Hundreds of new car deals are available through CarExpert right now. Get the experts on your side and score a great deal. Browse now. 'We never want to be the cause of that frustration again so together with our dealer network, we are committed to carefully managing any supply issues to provide complete transparency for customers when issues outside our control arise. 'We continue to work with our parent company in Japan to optimise production and supply levels of all Toyota vehicles to ensure we can deliver and satisfy Australian customer demands.' The rest of the range is unaffected, and Toyota Australia says it has 'good supply' of all other LC70 variants. It even says certain variants are in stock for immediate delivery, or with a maximum wait of between two and four months for new orders. That's a far cry from the supply situation for the old V8-powered LandCruiser 70 Series. Toyota Australia paused orders for the V8 LC70 in July 2022, before closing them for good midway through 2024 as it worked to clear a significant back-order bank. At one point, dealers were quoting wait times of four years 'or never' for the venerable V8. All LandCruiser 70 Series variants now come standard with a 2.8-litre turbo-diesel four-cylinder engine as seen in the HiLux and Prado, first made available here in late 2023. This brought an automatic transmission to the 70 Series for the first time (a six-speed unit as standard), and a five-speed manual – like that matched to the now-defunct 4.5-litre turbo-diesel V8 – didn't become available until late 2024. 'Since we launched the new four-cylinder LandCruiser 70 Series in late 2023, we have seen its appeal grow for Australian customers with strong demand across the entire range,' said Mr Hanley. It's a wide range, too. The top GXL trim is offered in Wagon, Troop Carrier and Double Cab Chassis body styles with the choice of manual or automatic transmissions. The base WorkMate trim can be had with a manual or auto in either Troop Carrier or Double Cab Chassis configurations, while the WorkMate wagon and WorkMate, GX and GXL Single Cab Chassis variants are auto-only.
Perth Now
17-07-2025
- Automotive
- Perth Now
Toyota LandCruiser 70 Series hit with another order pause
The battle between strong demand and insufficient supply has affected the Toyota LandCruiser 70 Series once again. Toyota Australia has confirmed it's pausing customer orders for the 70 Series… but only in GXL Wagon guise. It says the move to pause orders is intended to provide customers with 'more certainty around delivery times for existing orders'. 'We know in the past, particularly through the COVID-19 pandemic and during the global semi-conductor supply shortage, vehicle supply challenges caused a degree of frustration with our customers with wait times for delivery of new vehicles being extended significantly,' said Sean Hanley, Toyota Australia vice president for sales, marketing and franchise operations. Hundreds of new car deals are available through CarExpert right now. Get the experts on your side and score a great deal. Browse now. Supplied Credit: CarExpert 'We never want to be the cause of that frustration again so together with our dealer network, we are committed to carefully managing any supply issues to provide complete transparency for customers when issues outside our control arise. 'We continue to work with our parent company in Japan to optimise production and supply levels of all Toyota vehicles to ensure we can deliver and satisfy Australian customer demands.' The rest of the range is unaffected, and Toyota Australia says it has 'good supply' of all other LC70 variants. It even says certain variants are in stock for immediate delivery, or with a maximum wait of between two and four months for new orders. That's a far cry from the supply situation for the old V8-powered LandCruiser 70 Series. Supplied Credit: CarExpert Toyota Australia paused orders for the V8 LC70 in July 2022, before closing them for good midway through 2024 as it worked to clear a significant back-order bank. At one point, dealers were quoting wait times of four years 'or never' for the venerable V8. All LandCruiser 70 Series variants now come standard with a 2.8-litre turbo-diesel four-cylinder engine as seen in the HiLux and Prado, first made available here in late 2023. This brought an automatic transmission to the 70 Series for the first time (a six-speed unit as standard), and a five-speed manual – like that matched to the now-defunct 4.5-litre turbo-diesel V8 – didn't become available until late 2024. Supplied Credit: CarExpert 'Since we launched the new four-cylinder LandCruiser 70 Series in late 2023, we have seen its appeal grow for Australian customers with strong demand across the entire range,' said Mr Hanley. It's a wide range, too. The top GXL trim is offered in Wagon, Troop Carrier and Double Cab Chassis body styles with the choice of manual or automatic transmissions. The base WorkMate trim can be had with a manual or auto in either Troop Carrier or Double Cab Chassis configurations, while the WorkMate wagon and WorkMate, GX and GXL Single Cab Chassis variants are auto-only. MORE: Explore the Toyota LandCruiser 70 Series showroom
Yahoo
15-07-2025
- General
- Yahoo
Small Plane Narrowly Avoids Homes as It Crashes into Florida Neighborhood in Shocking Video Footage
A small two-engine plane crashed in a Pembroke Pines neighborhood in south Florida just one mile short of a local airport Ring door cam footage captured the scary moment when the plane collided with a tree, narrowing missing homes Neighbors rushed to help extract the four passengers inside the planeResidents of the Pembroke Pines neighborhood in south Florida are feeling lucky and shaken after a scary close call on Sunday, July 13. Ring door cam footage shared on NBC6 captured a small Cessna Skymaster plane falling out of the sky, narrowly avoiding homes before crashing into a tree and landing in a yard around 8:10 p.m. local time. The two-engine plane was traveling from Turks and Caicos on a three-hour flight to the North Perry Airport in Broward County about 30 minutes north of Miami, NBC News reported. It crashed just a mile short of the runway. Neighbors quickly rushed to action, grabbing hoses and axes to help extract the plane's passengers. Miraculously, the pilot and three passengers survived the crash and were transported to local hospitals. Sources told NBC6 that two of those patients are minors aged 13 and 16. is now available in the Apple App Store! Download it now for the most binge-worthy celeb content, exclusive video clips, astrology updates and more! 'What sounded like a very loud muffler, was in fact an airplane engine stopped by a massive tree,' Giovanna Hanley, who had been visiting her parents' home in Pembroke Pines when the plane went down, wrote on Facebook. Hanley said her father-in-law was across the street and helping to break glass and pull out passengers within seconds of the crash. 'Because of him and our neighbors' heroic efforts, 4 individuals were pulled to safety,' Hanley wrote. 'By the time EMS arrived, all were accounted for, being cared for, and fire had been extinguished.' Fellow neighbor Robert Cox told NBC, 'There's a blessing in this that nobody was killed and that's primarily because the plane didn't blow up.' This isn't the first time a plane has gone down near North Perry Airport. In 2021, 4-year-old Taylor Bishop died when a plane crashed into his mother's SUV. Pembroke Pines Mayor Angelo Castillo told NBC that there have been 36 crashes in the past five years within Pembroke Pines. 'This community wants to feel safe,' he said. 'I'm calling on the Broward County Commission to conduct a full, complete and independent investigation of safety at this airport.' The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating the cause of the crash. Read the original article on People
