Sentences with phrase «police oversight»
"Police oversight" refers to the practice of having systems in place to supervise, review, and hold police accountable for their actions and behavior. It involves ensuring that the police follow rules and regulations, treat people fairly and respectfully, and address any concerns or complaints from the public effectively. Full definition
These cases highlighted the need for more rigorous police oversight and resulted in the 1984 Police and Criminal Evidence Act.
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Maya Wiley, a former top lawyer for Mayor Bill de Blasio, stepped down from her role as chairwoman of New York City's independent police oversight agency on Thursday.
«That is something we've been working with the administration, and we've also discussed this in police oversight.
Yesterday, for example, during the City Council's vote to overturn Mayor Bloomberg's veto of the stop - and - frisk and police oversight bills, it was startling to hear Barron, following his customary sit - in during the Pledge of Allegiance, stand up and pay tribute to Viola Plummer, his former chief of staff: «There wouldn't be no today if it weren't for Viola Plummer, the December 12th Movement, Rev. Herbert Daughtry, who put it on the line, to make this day history.»
Maya Wiley stepped down from her role as chairwoman of the NYC Civilian Complaint Review Board, the city's independent police oversight agency, to focus on her work at The New School, where she is a professor and senior vice president.
The Chicago Teachers Union and groups calling for an elected police oversight board teamed up to pack City Hall on Wednesday in a show of force aimed at pressuring Mayor Rahm Emanuel and aldermen for their respective causes.
Some speculated that Governor Cuomo was trying to pull PBA President Pat Lynch onto his side to support whatever controversial reforms he tries push through on police oversight as part of a larger criminal justice reform package when he suddenly embraced the 75 % - of - salary - payout for officers permanently injured in the line of duty last week.
At noon, Citizens Union will unveil its position on a variety of police oversight reforms and urge New York City government officials to enact local laws that create a more cohesive system of public oversight with enhanced accountability to New Yorkers, City Hall steps, Manhattan.
Police oversight New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman earlier this week asked Gov. Andrew Cuomo to sign an executive order that would give Schneiderman the ability to investigate all cases involving unarmed civilians killed by police.
The language providing for greater State Police oversight and extension comes as Uber Technologies suspended its self - driving vehicles in Arizona following a pedestrian death during a test earlier this month.
«Never before has the CCRB been so active and so successful, giving New Yorkers the confidence that there was an effective police oversight system in place, and so what is really needed is for the reforms that he brought about to continue,» Dadey said.
And the New York Civilian Complaint Review Board (CCRB), the city's independent police oversight entity, voted unanimously to start probing civilian allegations of sexual misconduct by law enforcement.
Dadey said that recent incidents such as the Eric Garner case have increased the need for police oversight in order to maintain public confidence.
Demonstrators will call for an elected school board outside CPS offices, while another group is scheduled to converge on City Hall to back activists» demands for elected civilian police oversight.
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Dafonte Miller and his family have, as of late yesterday, filed conduct and systemic review complaints with the Ontario Independent Police Review Director (OIPRD) against both the Durham and Toronto Police Service seeking a full investigation of what the complainants say was an orchestrated cover - up motivated by corrupt purposes and enabled by weak police oversight legislation.»
Today, the Canadian Civil Liberties Association joins a coalition of community and advocacy groups calling for action on Justice Tulloch's police oversight recommendations.
TORONTO — Today, a coalition of community and advocacy groups, as well as the Ontario Human Rights Commission, issued a joint statement calling on the Government of Ontario and police oversight bodies to immediately implement recommendations of the Honourable Justice Michael Tulloch from his Report of the Independent Police Oversight Review.
In a statement on the decision, former comptroller Bill Thompson steered clear of the council's police oversight bills, promising only to «ensure the court's decision fulfills its objective.»
Diaz's opposition to LGBTQ rights dates back to his denunciations — while serving on the Civilian Complaint Review Board, the city's police oversight agency — of the 1994 Gay Games in New York, which he warned would lead to a spike in AIDS cases and to greater acceptance of homosexuality.
Rogers demonstrates that processes of police oversight and accountability currently exist in Canada.
Bill de Blasio has helped bolster a police oversight board, created a police inspector general, and moved to follow up on a court - ordered police body - camera program.
«It has been brought up in our police oversight meetings, community leaders, and by the Buffalo Police Department itself.
He lumps the speaker and the mayor together when it comes to police oversight.
A police oversight bill sponsored by City Council Member Jumaane Williams unanimously sailed through the Council's Committee on Oversight and Investigations on Tuesday, and is all but certain to be voted through the full City Council on Thursday.
Buffalo, NY (WBEN) The Buffalo Common Council has a police oversight committee, and one of its members says the department is taking the recommendation of the Attorney General's office after the probe into the death of Wardel «Meech» Davis.
In Part 2 of his weekly «Mondays with the Mayor» interview on NY1, Mayor de Blasio talks to Errol Louis about complaints that new funding for NYC Ferry service would be better spent on a program to provide discounted MetroCards, and a quote - tweet from a sergeants union slamming a police oversight agency tweet about the Fourth Amendment.
He's also trekked on motorcycle to a town outside of any government or police oversight, dropped eyes on the pretty bartender at said town's only pub, come into contact with who he will learn is his biological father, and been taken under the wing of an aging farmer and his hospitable wife.