Springfield police leaders criticize reform bill: ‘Getting it done fast was more important than hearing from people’
Updated Jan 17, 2021;
Posted Jan 17, 2021
3/16/2020 -Springfield- Springfield police commissioner Cheryl Clapprood speaks during a meeting at City Hall. In the rear is is Mayor Domenic Sarno. (Don Treeger / The Republican)
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SPRINGFIELD Three weeks after the state enacted a major police reform bill, city police say they are left in an awkward position of waiting to find out exactly what reform will look like.
Springfield Commissioner Cheryl C. Clapprood and the heads of the department’s two unions each said this week that they welcome police reform in general. But they questioned how the law is being rolled out, and worried about a number of uncertainties not stipulated within the bill’s 129 pages.