Her husband, Patrolman Brian Butler, pinned the chief’s badge on her uniform as their children looked on.
Butler credited her mentor and predecessor, retired Chief Bob St. Pierre, with paving the way for her to join the police force in Salem. She had taken the police exam in 1981, she said, after graduating from Salem State, but ran into “resistance” from the department. After St. Pierre became chief in 1985, and transformed a department that had been riddled with corruption, she took the exam again, and this time she got the job.
yeah, but did her son not get a field sobriety test like an MBTA cop????
Nope....her husband was only found guilty of indecent assault....
