Cities’ Efforts to Hold Police Accountable Hit a Wall: The Police | Civilian oversight boards face resistance across the country from those they are supposed to monitor.

@silence7@slrpnk.net · 8 months ago

Cities’ Efforts to Hold Police Accountable Hit a Wall: The Police | Civilian oversight boards face resistance across the country from those they are supposed to monitor.

@Poach@lemmy.world · 8 months ago

Well, the board doesn’t have any actual power? That seems flawed, if the board is supposed to hold the police accountable, I see no way that’s possible without some power. Like removing the asshole police chief that thinks his department is above being held accountable.

@girlfreddy@lemmy.ca · 8 months ago

My own city’s oversight board (that includes civilians) is essentiallly the same - no bite and little bark.