One City's solution to Police Abuses

[tinknal]

Dismantle the Commission that keeps an eye on the police!

"The Golden Valley City Council has fired its Human Rights Commission after it asked the city to form a task force to help prevent use of unnecessary force by city police officers, leaving the future of the state's oldest such commission up in the air."

http://www.startribune.com/local/136...tml?page=1&c=y

[Old Vet]

That is what the courts are for. If they use unnecessary force you sue the city and reduce the number of officers they have to commit unnecessary force. Enough law suits they will have no one to enforce the laws or any thing else. It works around here so why won't it work their? Oh I see that they are trying to be the go between the police and the citizens another layer to work through so you can sue.

[dlmcafee]

The city was is trying to cover its a.., when a commission says something that adds ammunition usable in law suits as Old Vet says then they must remove that threat. Commissions are generally paid off or coerced to give a view concurrent with political agendas of the governing body.
"Volunteers on the commission didn't seem to "recognize the seriousness of the discussion that they had ... and the legal liability that they placed the city in," Mayor Linda Loomis said at the council meeting this week. Council members then voted 4-1 to dismiss the commission and made it clear that they rejected its participants' comments and actions." (from the above article)
No matter what the council did to try to negate the commission I bet it is brought up in future suits. Good to see volunteer citizens do what is right.