Winnipeg, September 2024 – A new report from the Frontier Centre for Public Policy titled “They Must Not Become the Law Unto Themselves: Bringing Made-in-Canada Democratic Accountability to Autonomous Policing” argues that police independence in Canada is misunderstood, and this confusion is eroding public trust and creating dangerous policing inconsistencies.
The report, authored by Joseph Quesnel, Senior Research Fellow with the Frontier Centre, takes a hard look at the doctrine of police independence and its evolution, asserting that police should not be viewed as completely independent entities but as autonomous institutions accountable to elected officials and, ultimately, the Canadian public.
— Read on fcpp.org/2024/09/25/autonomous-not-untouchable-new-report-urges-canada-to-rethink-police-accountability/

Dozens of California police agencies have executed “clean-record agreements,” legal settlements that promise to hide the wrongdoing of officers.

In the article there are links to more reporting on this topic.
— Read on www.sfchronicle.com/california/article/clean-record-agreements-investigation-19752768.php

Most of the public discussion about police misconduct in America has focused on what to do after a tragedy occurs – should the officer be disciplined or even prosecuted, should they be allowed to move to a new department and continue working as a police officer, and how can we put into place trustworthy systems for investigating police misconduct, etc. Those are important questions, but in some sense, they are too late. Ideally, we would like to identify a way to prevent misconduct from occurring in the first place, which would spare members of the public from experiencing harm – and help save the careers of officers themselves.
— Read on crimelab.uchicago.edu/resources/policy-brief-understanding-and-improving-early-intervention-systems/