Buffalo Common Council members are considering enacting a law, modeled on one in Syracuse, that would bolster police transparency and accountability.
The new push follows a recent decision by Mayor Byron W. Brown and Police Commissioner Byron D. Lockwood to no longer require police officers to display their names on their uniforms â a move that doesnât sit well with many community members, activists and organizations.
The change was for the safety of police officers, department officials said. Following Black Lives Matter protests that broke out in late May after the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, some officers have had death threats and their personal information circulated publicly.
Dec. 28, 2020
Bradley Cooper leaves the Statler Hotel during the filming of Guillermo del Toro s Nightmare Alley. Harry Scull Jr./Buffalo News
An ice house, a bag ban, Bradley Cooper in Buffalo and other news you may have forgotten
We all know what the biggest story of the year was, and it overshadowed just about everything else in Western New York.
But 2020 cannot be remembered just for the Covid-19 pandemic. There were other things that occurred that, in a normal year, we would have had no trouble recalling.
Some of them had to do with the weather. Others affected what we do for fun, how we get from here to there or our attraction for moviemakers.