Boston creates new police accountability panel
4 years ago

Boston creates new police accountability panel

Associated Press  

BOSTON — Boston Mayor Marty Walsh on Monday signed a new city ordinance that creates an independent board to probe allegations of police misconduct. The Office of Police Accountability and Transparency will house and support the Civilian Review Board and the Internal Affairs Oversight Panel, which the city in a news release said creates a single point of public access to a new standard in police accountability and community oversight. “The Office of Police Accountability and Transparency will support lasting, generational change by rooting out impropriety and ensuring the type of enhanced oversight that leads to greater community trust.” The oversight agency will be overseen by three commissioners and a lawyer who would serve as the executive director. It stems from Walsh’s Boston Police Reform Task Force created in June to review city police policies and procedures as well as recommend reforms in response to a nationwide reckoning over police misconduct and racism.

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