Author: scott prell

Conduct of Law Enforcement Agencies

This is the Main Page for the DOJ Law Enforcement Consent Decree website. It has some interesting information and links that are worth checking out.  Available at the link below are the DOJ police department Investigations, Agreement in Principle and Consent Decrees.

Conduct of Law Enforcement Agencies
— Read on www.justice.gov/crt/conduct-law-enforcement-agencies

City of Oakland | Oakland Police Negotiated Settlement Agreement…

This is similar to a Consent Decree. Follow the link below and Take some time to search through the various reports. Each report is over 100 pages and there are 50 plus reports. I don’t think OPD has fulfilled all the tasks of the NSA. Crazy.

Oakland Police Negotiated Settlement Agreement (NSA) and Office of the Inspector General (OIG) Reports
— Read on www.oaklandca.gov/resources/oakland-police-negotiated-settlement-agreement-nsa-reports

Boulder Police Oversight Panel reaffirms appointees, setting up showdown at city council

This article presents a good example where pro-police citizens are upset over appointment of ant-police agenda driven members to the police oversight panel.

Boulder’s elected officials may exercise authority over civilian group for the first time, halting oversight work
— Read on boulderbeat.news/2023/01/14/police-oversight-appointees-showdown/

Pittsburgh Police resume certain minor traffic stops despite policy against them | 90.5 WESA

This has been an interest of mine. How can a municipality dictate the enforcement of State Law? In this case vehicle and traffic law.

The below article has likes to the specific law and it allows for “secondary enforcement” but not primary enforcement.

The two violations I’ll discuss are expired registration and expired inspection. I am surprised that expired registration gets a pass because it’s a money grab for the State and expired inspection is a SAFETY issue and/or an EMISSIONS issue. Emissions! Hello environmentalists.

The main question is how can a municipality set aside a subset a laws and label them “Do Not Enforce”. Every other municipality enforces these laws yet in Pennsylvania yet in Pittsburgh these laws are purposefully under enforced.

What other State laws can be ignored? Theft? Damage to property? Assault? Murder? Or just vehicle and traffic laws?

When police take the oath of office the swear to uphold the laws and the constitution of the State and the municipality that they work in. How can a municipality have police stop enforcing state law?

The ARTICLE:

Pittsburgh Police officials say a city ordinance that blocks enforcement of certain minor traffic violations is “preventing them from doing their jobs.”
— Read on www.wesa.fm/politics-government/2023-01-12/pittsburgh-police-resume-secondary-traffic-stops-despite-city-ordinance-against-them