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Great! Let's start with
Great! Let's start with Universal Hub commenters who pretend to be cops.
The problem is the arbitration/civil service process
The numbers don’t lie. The organization disciplines officers, and the arbitrators and/or civil service Commission reverse the decision. Appointing a civilian board will do nothing unless the contracts/civil service laws are changed.
Section 171 of the City Charter gives the city Council
subpoena power over the Police commissioner. Through the BPD Commissioner they may request any records and testimony. Do your job.
Ask Steve Murphy about that.
He tried to grandstand with a subpoena to Commissioner Evans and he got run right out of office next election.
I'm not going to wake him up from a well deserved nap
to ask that question. Have you ever registered a deed? It's exhausting.
What??? The city council do
What??? The city council do its job???
Harrumph!
Harrumph!
This is a really good set of recommendations
It starts out by acknowledging that it's impossible to come up with strong, point-by-point guidance in the time period they were given, but then lays out some really strong and clear guidelines that would solve most of the department's structural problems. Some of the recommendations are common-sense (have the department hire more local people by giving BPS graduates the same preference as veterans), some of them are significant but fair (everyone has a body camera on and running all the time, or faces real discipline for it), and some are eye-opening (whatever they learned about Internal Affairs, they sure don't seem to trust it), but they make up a really good blueprint for creating a police department that believes in community policing.
They also require that officers face consequences when they do illegal shit, which means this report will be completely ignored.
How about the Task Force set
How about the Task Force set the example for openness and make all their documentation available to the public?
We need a committee to review the task force and
a special committee to review the committee that reviews the task force and a neighborhood liasion to contact the committee on committees to cut through the red tape that the blue ribbon committee on... what was the question?