Councilman says citizens’ policy review board might be better for police investigations

Efforts to make a national reappraisal committee (CRB) to analyse complaints against the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office, including police-involved shootings, whitethorn beryllium taking a detour.

City Councilman Michael Boylan says instauration of a citizens’ argumentation reappraisal committee whitethorn beryllium the amended mode to spell to beforehand goals of assemblage policing.

The radical Safer Together has held a bid of workshops with JSO, and aft those workshops, recommended instauration of a CRB. The existent reappraisal process starts with the State Attorney’s Office, and past an interior reappraisal by JSO.

It’s uncertain wherever a CRB would measurement successful connected a police-involved shooting, but Boylan says experts person made it wide that immoderate findings by a CRB would person nary unit of law, and that lone authorities and national agencies tin analyse transgression complaints against constabulary officers.

Boylan’s proposal besides pointed to disapproval of JSO’s effect to assemblage concerns. In a memo, Boylan says helium fears the workshops with Safer Together were “just different workout successful tamping down immoderate effort to bring meaningful alteration to the constabulary force.”

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Boylan says Sheriff Mike Williams did not prosecute successful immoderate of the discussions and that Undersheriff Pat Ivey professed nary familiarity with the issues raised.

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