Public Safety chief on Sawyer charges: ‘Not a great fit’

Tom Anderson, commissioner of the Department of Public Safety. File photo by Mike Dougherty/VTDiggerVermont Public Safety Commissioner Thomas Anderson told lawmakers Friday that it’s not easy to devise legislation to define a crime in response to a foiled school shooting because it’s such a rare occurrence — so much so that he couldn’t find a model from other jurisdictions.
“There are not a lot of cases where police actually intercepted or thwarted these kind of att