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Police reform is overwhelmingly popular, but basic reforms are undercut by police at every turn.
This is because police unions and departments create policy loopholes that essentially allows them to police themselves.
This is how bad cops avoid accountability.
This is an opinion column. The thoughts expressed are those of the author.
Americans overwhelmingly believe that policing in this country needs to be substantially reformed.
That doesn t mean defund or abolish the police those are non-starters across the demographic board, including among Black and inner-city communities.
What people might call common-sense reforms like making officer disciplinary records available to the public and teaching officers that they should not behave as if they re occupying Fallujah are far more popular.
April 18, 2021
Mayor Bill de Blasio this week weighed in on the killing of Daunte Wright, a young Black man fatally shot by a Brooklyn Center, Minn., cop who says she mistook her gun for a taser.
Subscribe Why are people allowed to be police officers if they don t know how to handle their weapon? he asked Monday during an interview with Ebro Darden on radio station Hot 97.
Community leaders in Brooklyn, N.Y., want to ask the mayor and police brass the same thing, as they question the recent assignment of Chief John Chell to head up the Brooklyn North Detective Bureau. It marked the latest high-profile job for a cop who says he accidentally fired his gun in the fatal 2008 shooting of a young Black man.
Detective Caught Allegedly Using Banned Chokehold Will Retire Without Accrued Vacation & OT Pay
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An NYPD detective caught on video appearing to place an Inwood man in a chokehold, a banned maneuver, has reportedly agreed to retire and stripped of all his accrued vacation and overtime pay as a result of the violent incident.
Detective Fabio Nunez will not be facing a disciplinary trial for his violent encounter with Tomás Medina that happened on July 14th, 2018 outside a car dealership, according to the New York Daily News. Nunez has instead given up his badge and gun, according to the News. NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea, however, recommended Nunez leave the force while stripping him of his vacation and overtime pay, which reportedly translates to $10,000 worth of accrued time. The NYPD appears to have allowed Nunez to keep his pension.
The nominations are being seen as a promotion for Meera Joshi and Radhika Fox who joined the administration on the very first day of the Biden presidency on January 20.
WASHINGTON – US President Joe Biden on Wednesday announced his intent to nominate a top attorney and an executive, both Indian-American women, to key administration positions.
The nominations are being seen as a promotion for Meera Joshi and Radhika Fox who joined the administration on the very first day of the Biden presidency on January 20.
Joshi has been nominated for Administrator of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration in the Department of Transportation while Fox was nominated for Assistant Administrator for Water, Environmental Protection Agency, the White House said in a statement.
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Nearly a year after thousands took to the streets of New York City for weeks-long protests against police brutality in the wake of the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, the issue remains front and center. During the murder trial of former police officer Derek Chauvin for Floyd’s death, Minnesota was rocked by yet another police killing of a Black man. During a traffic stop in the Minneapolis suburb Brooklyn Center, a police officer shot and killed 20-year-old Daunte Wright. The officer said she mistook her gun for her taser. Other instances of police brutality keep cropping up across the nation, such as the pepper-spraying of a black and Latino Army officer during a routine stop in Virginia earlier this week.