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Q&A: How do you feel about how Gov. Ned Lamont has rolled out his business reopening plan?

Cicarella: “Listening to some people in the district and different professions, (I heard) a lot of different opinions … I think that safety is first and foremost, and the health of everybody, not only the employees but the people who will be entering the establishments. But I think it needs to be the choice of both the people, and more importantly the business owners so they ’re able to support their families and be able to open their doors so their employees can go to work and feed their families. With that in mind, I think the health risk needs to be mitigated in whatever way necessary.” Capone: “I’m very fortunate that I work with people who are medical experts and I think it’s been important to listen to the experts. We are all having quarantine fatigue (but) so far the numbers show that the reopening plan is working because the rates of new infections are going down. We will have to see over time if that continues , and my hope is that if that do esn’t continue, that we would readjust and put the health of our residents first … This is the situation and I think the state put the health and safety of residents first, so I’m cautiously o p t i m i st i c.”

Q&A: The coronavirus ripped through our nursing homes and long-term care facilities. What could have been done differently?

Capone: “I lost my aunt ear ly on. She was in a nursing home … Maybe it’s time we look at how we care for our elderly and disabled in the state. I’m sure nursing homes could have done things differently, we know that now, but maybe there is also a different way to care for people ... As mayor, I was at the nursing homes quite a bit. I don’t know one person w h o’ s ever wanted to go into a nursing home. Most people want to stay in their homes. Most people want community-based care.”

Cicarella: “My wife is a nurse and she works in a nursing home (in North Haven) and, knock on wood, there was no cases, and I think it was a great job on their part to make sure that the PPE equipment was utilized and there were common sense plans put in place by the business to prevent that from happening … That was a terrible, terrible thing, but as we know the virus does attack people with compromised immune systems and unfor tunately some of our elderly are at a higher risk.”

Q&A: Where do you stand on Black Lives Matter?

Cicarella: “That was a terrible video to watch ... and it didn’t have to happen. But you can’ t judge every police officer for the actions of one person … I think there is a time, and it’s now, to listen and m ake proper changes. I do support police. I’ m retired law enforcement, I was in the Department of Correction. Every organization has good and bad people, and I think the decisions need to be made taking that into consideration. Now is a time for unit y.”

Capone: “When there are people in your community who are hurting, one of your roles is to listen and respond. It happened in East Haven when I was mayor, and that was one of the concerns, how do you respond to the comm unity. I've marched with Black Lives Matter these past weeks and proud to do so. I think we need to have the tough conversations in our community … We send police out to do way too much … [O]fficers cannot be expected to be mental health professionals, to be social workers, to be drug counselors. We’r e sending them with lethal force to do these j obs.”

Q&A: Where do you stand on police reform?

Capone: “I stand with police in making sure they are trained, they are supported, they are held accountable, which is very important, that they are given the right tools for their job and that they are not sent to do a job they shouldn’ t be doing … I’ve long called for the demilitarization of our police because I don’t think that that serves us on the streets of our communities. I belie ve in the community policing model that has been successful.”

Cicarella: “Coming back to life experience and common sense, my mentality is, even in my business, everything can always be made better, and to do that you need to take data or information, analyze it and see where we can make things better. From a small business to policing, we can always be better. More training is definit ely a great idea. I think that there needs to be more education for officers on how to deal with certain mental health issues and deescalation of certain situations. As far as defunding, if anything I think now is more of a time to give more training to officers.”

Q&A: What should be addressed in the proposed special legislative session?

Cicarella: “Getting people back to work and figuring out how we’re going to get out of this situation. We definitely need to come up with a plan to get everybody back to work. Definitely the health concerns are very, very important. People are worried about a reoccurrence in the fall. I think that has to be disc ussed, but more importantly putting the people back to work and finding a safe way for them to do that, and how w e’re going to be able to fin ancially bounce back from the costs associated with his pa n d e m i c.” Capone: “I think there need to be significant police refor ms … The special session should address voting if that cannot be done by executive order, but I really think (it should address) police accountability and training and support. When you look at what East Haven did under the fe deral consent decree, it was very similar to President's Task Force on 21st Century Policing. The actions that they took are very, very similar. They work. So let’s m ake sure all of Connecticut is held to that st a n da rd .”

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