Roland Butler's embattled nomination to lead the Maryland State Police advanced over opposition from lawmakers who questioned elevating an internal candidate.
former Lt. Col. Roland L. Butler Jr. last month, describing him as someone who “understands the culture and understands the challenges that need to be fixed.”
The vote comes after Moore’s top aides spent hours in closed-door meetings in recent weeks with some Black troopers who object to Butler’s promotion. And last week, days before Butler appeared before the Senate Executive Nominations Committee, Moore met with some Black troopers himself in an effort to dampen opposition.
“Being in leadership is a very important thing, but you don’t know everything is going on around you,” he said, when asked about the challenges facing the department. “I think he’s got a unique blend of having a reform mind-set, but he’s been in the system,” Smith said. “Now, some would say he’s incapable of reform because he’s come up in the system, but I believe in that type of environment he was never the one in control. He was never number one, and now he’s got an opportunity to make real reform and change as the number one.”Butler did not offer specifics about the reforms he would institute during his hour-long hearing this week.
He said the State Police has a robust recruiting plan but is competing with other law-enforcement agencies. Noting that about 45 percent of all applicants drop out of the process, he said he wants to revisit those applicants to help those, for example, who need physical fitness plans to follow to “get up to snuff” for the academy. He is working with historically Black universities to get students who might be interested in criminal justice to consider becoming state troopers.
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