Board of Peace Officer Standards and Training reviews complaints about officer conduct, and can issue sanctions such as officer license suspension or revocation.
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A pretext traffic stop is when police pull you over for a minor traffic violation and then use that to search for a more serious offense.
These stops don t reduce crime, and too often lead to the deaths of Black motorists.
Until there s extensive reformation, police shouldn t be allowed in situations where they are prone to kill.
This is an opinion column. The thoughts expressed are those of the author.
On April 11, 20-year-old Daunte Wright was driving down a street in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota. As many of us made sure to do at his age, he had an air-freshener hanging from his rear-view mirror. But in Minnesota, it s illegal to have items dangling from your rear-view mirror, and so, according to Daunte s mother, this prompted Brooklyn Center police to pull him over. Daunte was killed
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Derek Chauvin isn t the only one on trial this month. So is the state of policing in Minneapolis. The system itself has to come out and say, We apologize, we want to work with you. We want to own the mistakes we have done, said Raj Sethuraju, a community activist and professor at Metropolitan State University.
Any transformation requires changes to an obscure state agency that oversees licensing and training of officers.
It’s called the Minnesota Peace Officers Standards and Training Board, or the POST Board.
Elected officials and community leaders say the POST board lacks real authority, with no oversight of department-level training and the inability to collect complete data about complaints against officers across the state.