After ignoring Randy Cox's pleas for medical help for nearly an hour, the five New Haven police officers who dismissed Cox's claims that his neck was broken have been arrested on charges of reckless endangerment and cruelty to persons. While the indifference with which Cox, now paralyzed from the chest down, was faced is disturbing, the arrest of the officers responsible gives a faint hope for future accountability.
"It's hard to see officers charged," New Haven Chief of Police Karl Jacobson said to the New Haven Register. "But it's also what we've been talking about since the beginning. We need to be transparent… You can make mistakes, but you can't treat people the way Randy Cox was treated."
