Common demands for police reform include chipping away at long-established police protections: make complaints against officers open to the public, tighten and enforce use-of-force rules, and reform the disciplinary process.
OGDENSBURG — City Manager Stephen P. Jellie has issued an order that will temporarily suspend the police department’s investigation unit and put two detectives back on the road as patrols.
You’ve won the gunfight. Now come the court fights… in criminal court, in civil court, and in the court of public opinion. Current cop, retired cop, or private citizen, you need to be ready.I’m writing this eight days after the Not Guilty verdict came in for a lawman I spoke for in Federal court in Tampa, Florida. His case is a classic example of why I laugh when I read that shibboleth on the gun-related internet, “A good shoot is a good shoot.”