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Inglewood will destroy 20 years of police shooting records ahead of new transparency law
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<blockquote data-quote="SummerMadness" data-source="post: 73515982" data-attributes="member: 142216"><p><a href="https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2018/12/25/inglewood-will-destroy-20-years-of-police-shooting-records-ahead-of-new-transparency-law/" target="_blank"><strong>Inglewood will destroy 20 years of police shooting records ahead of new transparency law</strong></a></p><p></p><p></p><p>One of the ways to avoid addressing police miscond is to get rid of the records that can be used in police reform. I remember someone once made an argument that you need a DOJ report on every police station in order to make any assessment about police misconduct in the country (at the time they were busy pretending as if the Chicago PD had no issues); when the DOJ report came out for the department the person was carrying water for, silence followed. The tactic then became to attack reform efforts, up to and including denying the usefulness of records such as these. For some people, government accountability is the last thing they want because they would rather particular populations remain victims of government overreach. I suspect they will pretend destroying records the day after a new law that would open them to the public comes into effect is perfectly normal and okay.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SummerMadness, post: 73515982, member: 142216"] [URL=https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2018/12/25/inglewood-will-destroy-20-years-of-police-shooting-records-ahead-of-new-transparency-law/][B]Inglewood will destroy 20 years of police shooting records ahead of new transparency law[/B][/URL] One of the ways to avoid addressing police miscond is to get rid of the records that can be used in police reform. I remember someone once made an argument that you need a DOJ report on every police station in order to make any assessment about police misconduct in the country (at the time they were busy pretending as if the Chicago PD had no issues); when the DOJ report came out for the department the person was carrying water for, silence followed. The tactic then became to attack reform efforts, up to and including denying the usefulness of records such as these. For some people, government accountability is the last thing they want because they would rather particular populations remain victims of government overreach. I suspect they will pretend destroying records the day after a new law that would open them to the public comes into effect is perfectly normal and okay. [/QUOTE]
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