What's needed from a new police oversight commission in Minneapolis
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English - December 05, 2022 11:15 - 51 minutes - 94.7 MB - ★★★★★ - 34 ratingsPolitics News Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
John is joined by Abigail Cerra for a conversation about a proposal for a new police oversight commission in Minneapolis. Cerra is the former chair of the Police Conduct Oversight Commission, a body that hasn't met for most of 2022 due to the failure of the mayor and city council to appoint new members. We talk about the draft creating the new commission and its several glaring flaws; Cerra's experience; why she resigned from the PCOC; and how the old commission was ignored by city leaders and denied direct access to city data. Cerra says this is an opportunity to fix those problems -- so that the city's next police oversight commission has the political independence, resources and authority to engage in meaningful oversight.
The proposal will be voted on (approved, amended, delayed or rejected) by the city council this Thursday, December 8.
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