Minnesota Reformer
Getty Images.
If plumbers spent as much time giving each other awards as journalists, the streets would be flooded with water spewing from unfixed pipes.
That said, I’m proud that the
I hope in some small way it catalyzes a movement for better access to public records. (And obviously a better police department.)
There’s no more important role for the free press than scrutinizing state power, and no institution is invested with more power than the police, who can legally detain and kill their fellow citizens.
Public records are perhaps the most vital tool to scrutinize the institutions that most need it when we use them, we have a real time snapshot of government actions and correspondence, rather than relying on at-times unreliable sources with faulty memories and mixed motivations.
Updated
4 hours ago
Wandering Police Officers Big Impediment To Reform: Report
A 2020 study showed officers who move to other police departments often run into disciplinary problems after they are rehired.
William H. Freivogel and Paul Wagman/Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
ST. LOUIS (AP) Timothy Loehmann wanted to be a police officer like his father. He got a job in Independence, Ohio, but it didn’t go well. His supervisors allowed him to quit after he suffered a “dangerous lack of composure” during firearms training. The department concluded he would “not be able to cope or make good decisions” under stress. The deputy chief wrote Loehmann “could not follow simple directions, could not communicate clear thoughts nor recollections, and his handgun performance was dismal.”
Indiana lawmakers unanimously approve police reforms following last summer's protests nwitimes.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from nwitimes.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Survey: Non-white residents feel MPD officers not held accountable for misconduct
Recent news investigations have found complaints against officers don t often lead to discipline.
Author:
Many non-white residents believe that officers in the Minneapolis Police Department are not held accountable for their misconduct, a new survey says.
The survey, conducted by the Leadership Conference Education Fund in the months before and after George Floyd s May 25 death during his arrest by now-former MPD officers, found nearly 75% of Black respondents don t believe Minneapolis officers face accountability for misconduct.
Meanwhile, 56.3% of Native Americans and 54.7% of Latinos surveyed said officers weren t held accountable for misconduct, according to the survey, which involved 498 respondents who identified as Black, Native American or Latino.
absolutely, i want to explain how did it and i want to declassify all information possible to let you see what went in the report and i will start calling people. this is a big deal. if a court was fed bad information by bad cops, department of justice who had a political agenda to get a warrant against american citizen and we do nothing about it, we are encouraging the breakdown of rule of law, somebody needs to be punished for misleading the court, lying to the court, the counter intelligence investigation, why did they not tell president trump they had concerns about people on the campaign working with russia, the point of the counter intelligence investigation is to protect the target of the foreign influence, they told dianne feinstein, the fbi did that the chinese employee of hers may be working with chinese government and she fired him, they never warned this president, i think they were misusing the counterintelligence investigation and did the president of the united states