In his second stint in charge of the Citizens’ Law Enforcement Review Board, Paul Parker keeps coming up with new ways to try to exercise civilian oversight
San Diegans for Justice commissioned the study after the group held several community listening sessions where the need to address county law enforcement surfaced.
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A year after George Floyd’s murder and the worldwide protests it sparked, more than half of US states have passed reform bills, altering policies like use of force, creating new rules about tracking misconduct, and mandating officer interventions during aggressive encounters. Major cities even made moves to aggressively reimagine policing.
Some of these changes have been tentative; some have been reversed; others have run up against lawsuits and backlash and red tape; some have been far less than what local protesters have called for. Changing policing, it has become apparent, will not be instantaneous or easy.