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Baltimore’s newly formed Police Accountability Board wants to explore having independent legal counsel, separate from the city’s lawyers. But it’s facing pushback from city government. Board members say they see a potential conflict in city attorneys representing both the Baltimore Police Department and the body overseeing that law enforcement agency. Some in Monday’s board meeting also .
We’d like to put our faith in a government that is doing what’s best for us, or in our best interest; public administrators politicians are ethically bound to protect the public interest. We like to think that our elected representatives serve the people and not themselves, that they bring morality to our government. .