Company wrote policy used by Brooklyn Center and dozens of Wisconsin law enforcement agencies.
By
Henry Redman - Apr 20th, 2021 04:40 pm
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At dozens of Wisconsin law enforcement agencies, portions of use-of-force policies are exactly the same as the use-of-force policy for the Brooklyn Center, Minn. Police Department — where 20-year-old
Daunte Wright was killed by a police officer in a traffic stop earlier this month.
The policies are worded exactly the same because they were all written by Lexipol, a company that allows law enforcement agencies and other units of local government to outsource their policy writing in the name of efficiency and cost-effectiveness. The company says it has built policies for thousands of law enforcement agencies and local governments across the country and it is deeply ingrained in Wisconsin law enforcement.