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Mayor Turner, Black Lives Matter Houston address the future of police oversight board
Houston Police Officers’ Union also weighs in on recommendations from task force
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HOUSTON – Mayor Sylvester Turner said that work is underway to restructure a civilian police misconduct review board, which was under scrutiny for not being effective at holding officers accountable.
An overhaul of the Independent Police Oversight Board, or IPOB, was one of the main recommendations addressed in a Turner-commissioned policing reform task force, which published findings of its review in September.
Since then, community activists have called on Turner to begin implementing many of the policy recommendations. But many allege Turner isn’t moving quickly enough and hasn’t kept the public in the know about what’s underway.
Editor’s note: This article is the third and final part of a series exploring Houston’s police reform task force report. Part One addressed the challenge of changing polices through the police union contract. Part Two examined the recommendations for overhauling the Independent Police Oversight Board. Community Impact Newspaper also created a tracking dashboard to monitor Houston s progress in addressing the task force report.
When he asked national experts which city to use as a model for mental health crisis response systems, Harris Center for Mental Health CEO Wayne Young said he was pointed back to Houston.
“They said, ‘If anyone else had made this call and asked where to look, we would have told them that Houston was the place to look in terms of innovation and collaboration,” said Young, a member of the mayor’s police reform task force who spoke to the City Council’s public safety committee in November.