Opinion
They license every cop in the state, and they’ve just been judged to be ‘fundamentally broken’
After this summer’s protests, police reform is set to begin in Austin
Bastrop Republican John Cyrier believes police reform will be the theme of the 2021 legislative session in Austin. We think he’s right. And that effort may find its crux in the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement.
TCOLE needs an overhaul. The agency oversees licensing and training of the state’s 102,000 police officers and jailers. In November, the Sunset Advisory Commission, a panel tasked with periodic reviews of government agencies, issued a report that called TCOLE toothless, outdated, ineffective and “fundamentally broken.”