City police commissioners voted unanimously to fire Monique Moore from her job as a New Haven patrol officer — more than a year after the now-ex-cop was arrested on charges related to domestic violence and computer crimes.
Commissioners took that vote on Thursday during a special meeting of the city’s Board of Police Commissioners. The city’s weekly personnel report on Monday showed that Moore, who joined the New Haven Police Department (NHPD) in 2014, was terminated from her job effective Jan. 27.
The police commission’s vote to fire Moore comes after the nine-year city police veteran was arrested in November 2021 on separate warrants related to her alleged use of the city police department’s computer system to harass someone. At the time of her arrest, one of those cases saw her charged with second-degree harassment and third-degree criminal mischief related to family violence; the other saw Moore charged with two counts of third-degree computer crimes. She was placed on administrative leave at that time while both the criminal investigation and a parallel Internal Affairs (IA) investigation played out.
During a Monday morning phone interview with the Independent, Police Chief Karl Jacobson said that he moved to have Moore fired because of her two misdemeanor arrests for domestic violence and her felony arrest for “misuse of the COLLECT system.”
“As I move forward as the chief, I want to make sure that we’re transparent and accountable and that we are being fair with our officers, but also holding them accountable,” Police Chief Karl Jacobson told the Independent Monday. “In New Haven and throughout the country, we at times lose the community’s trust. … Our goal is to gain the community’s trust.”
According to the state’s criminal court online database, Moore has not yet entered pleas in two separate ongoing criminal cases involving six different misdemeanor charges, including third-degree assault, disorderly conduct, third-degree criminal mischief, and second-degree harassment. The court’s online database also shows that a third ongoing criminal case, for which records have been statutorily sealed from public view, is awaiting disposition.
Moore and a representative from the police union did not respond to requests for comment by the publication time of this article.
