The ACLU said that for the first time, information about police contracts and commissions has been collected online in Connecticut. Some say the access will.
they have bargained away the transparency and vulnerability, and so the police contracts have to be changed. reporter: he has won a fraction of police misconduct records which date back a half a century which show that jason van dyke, the officer charged with laquan mcdonald had 19 complains before shooting and killing the teen, and including ten for exis cessive force, and also for the officer of 30 complaint, and 10 for use of force in another case. the f.o.p. declined a request for interview, saying they are in litigation, but the fop did grant an interview to an affiliate recently.
detail. what we are actually talking about are police contracts fair to the citizen. so many police contracts we discovered an employer request actually provides a lot of barriers to truth coming out to making sure that accountable and citizen protection is centered. so issues of excuse me, the kinds of breaks officers are allowed to take after being involved in an officer-involved shooting, it would be the amount of time before you can interrogate them to get their side of the story. we want to make sure there are no barriers to truth and no barriers to accountability in the contracts. we learned after the shooting, correction, after the death of freddie gray in baltimore, those officers involved had several days before they could be questioned much less if they could publicly speak about it. which we still haven t heard from them. finally, is there a national element here or is this state by state? there s absolutely a national element. if you look at the site, we have platform