So, would there be any other policies you would support in the future to diminish
the number of civilians who are killed by police? Like would you ever support a
change to the reasonable standard for use of force? I think we should always be
prepared to look at what works, the best practices. See where others are going
that have shown fruit. And that's why this civil review of the Sacramento
Police Department, I think it will be very important because as I tried to do
last year in promoting some legislation, the more we understand about what
happened, the more we can understand about what we can, how things will happen.
And I think we have to be able to make assessments based on what we know versus
what we think or some anecdotal story. So best policing practices, using the most
effective techniques that have shown fruit in other places. Such as? Washington, DC has
moved forward with a lot of reforms. A number of cities, Chicago and others are
now having to go through the same process because of their issues. We are,
right now, overseeing the reforms at the San Francisco Police Department because
the U.S. Department of Justice abandoned the effort to help the San Francisco
Police Department deal with its its its need for reform. And so we stepped in, and
so now we're doing that independent oversight of the 272 reforms at the San
Francisco Police Department agreed to do. And so those those kinds of initiatives
that I think helped us move the ball forward.
Has police use-of-force legislation struct the right balance?
I think we have to respect the
fact that it doesn't happen every day, but any one of these men and women in
uniform, you know, could lose their life. having said that, in terms of the
legislative ideas, the different measures that are being proposed, I've said this
to a number of folks in and out of the legislature in and out of law
enforcement in and out of the criminal justice reform movement. We have to, we
have to ingest what we're doing so we know where to go because both ends,
there's a there, there is a need to have justice. That's why in the Sacramento
case of Stephan Clark, when I was, when I worked out an arrangement with the
Sacramento authorities to go in and do an independent oversight of the criminal
investigation, I also said, I also want you to give me the independent authority
to conduct a civil review of your policing practices. And that's what I'm
doing as well. And I will say, on behalf of law enforcement, you got to give them
a chance to implement what's passed.
Không có nhận xét nào:
Đăng nhận xét