Boulder City Council’s Removal of Police Oversight Member is Another Blow to Panel’s Effectiveness – Yellow Scene Magazine

This is an interesting article about how to remove a member from a police oversight board. There must be a process because members of these boards can’t have absolute membership and authority. Right??? Each removal process probably varies by charter or local or state laws. From what I could follow Denver’s council passed a law to form the Police Oversight Panel which always interests me because isn’t that the legislative branch taking control of the executive branch (which controls the police department)? It would be like Mayor passing a Banker position that would control the government funds to circumvent the city council. Good for the Mayor but that would break the separation of powers. Whatever no one cares.

Boulder City Council decided to remove Police Oversight Panel (POP) member Lisa Sweeney-Miran in a 5-2 vote on Thursday May 4th with two council members Boulder City Council removed Police Oversight Panel ember Lisa Sweeney-Miran, bringing additional questions to the panel’s effectiveness
— Read on yellowscene.com/2023/05/06/boulder-city-councils-removal-of-police-oversight-member-is-another-blow-to-panels-effectiveness/

Behind the blue wall: The toxic culture that left a Vancouver police officer dead

Chan had been subjected to a pattern of abuse by senior members of the Vancouver police force starting when she was being recruited to the department.

There are several informative links in the article to checkout.
— Read on theconversation.com/behind-the-blue-wall-the-toxic-culture-that-left-a-vancouver-police-officer-dead-204743

The link to the Coroner’s Inquest report

The Culture of Policing Is Broken – How Police Brutality Gets Made – The Atlantic

It’s one of the most remarkable poll results of the current moment. From May 29 to June 2, a Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll asked voters whether they were more troubled by the actions of the police and the death of George Floyd, or by protests that had turned violent. By a more than two-to-one margin, they said they were more troubled by the actions of the police.
— Read on www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/06/how-police-brutality-gets-made/613030/