Compromise Police Reform. The Massachusetts legislature has unveiled a 129- page bill on police reform after four months of behind-closed-doors negotiations.The policing legislation agreement creates a Massachusetts Peace Officer Standards and Training Commission (aka POST), a nine-member civil enforcement agency with the power to certify officers, oversee investigations into officer misconduct, and rescind an officers’ license. Additionally, the bill makes no significant change to qualified immunity for police officers. What do you make of the newly introduced police reform bill?
Be Careful What You Wish For... Protestors who took to the streets demanding police reform are getting their wish, but all is not positive news. Unjustified complaints have been mixed in with the justified creating a hostile environment for many police departments resulting in a large personnel loss. Dan will be joined by former Newton Police Chief David MacDonald who took an early retirement rather than endure the current anti-police climate.
Missing Servers, Martial Law, Is it Time to Stop? Attorney Sidney Powell says that while her legal team was getting a subpoena for a Fulton County Georgia Dominion voting machine, someone took it. The President tweeted a message to the Governor of Georgia saying if you check signatures and signed envelopes with ballots, the peach state can call off its special election because it won’t be needed any more. A grassroots movement in Ohio called: We The People, says just declare martial law and let’s have an election do over. Is it time to just move on and concede?
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