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While the Wisconsin Senate hasn’t yet ban chokeholds or taken up other use of force policies, it did pass several administrative police reform bills Tuesday. It’s the first movement in the legislature on policing since racial justice protests erupted last year.
One bill, dealing with Milwaukee’s Fire and Police Commission, generated animated conversation. The bill would require commissions to accept a member nominee from police and firefighter unions.
Each union would submit five candidates of its choosing to the mayor who would pick one candidate from each list. The bill would also require nine commissioners to be appointed instead of the possibility of seven under current law, and it would require a mayor to fill a vacancy on the commission within 120 days or the common council could make the appointment.