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The Death To All Civilian Oversight Committees and Review Boards!
Do You Want Phoenix Police Department and Phoenix Law Enforcement Association Setting The Laws For Your State and City? Or Do You Like Your State and City Relations With Law Enforcement The Way It Is Now, BecauseIt Could Become Like Phoenix, Leading The Country With Officer Involved Killings With Little To Zero Disciplining! Sicking Gang Task Force Dectives On Op**te Pain Management Patients and Very Respectable Internal Medicine Doctors!
By Anthony W. De La Viña
Local police Civilian Oversight Committee/Review Boards are either handled on a city by city issue or this goes to the State Bar Of Arizona or to the Arizona Supreme Court for state & federal guidelines/statutes, as there are hundreds of Civilian Oversight Committees/Review Boards across the United States! This statewide Bill could end up being in the United States Supreme Court setting case law for every state, county and city in our country!
This first need to be brought to the Arizona Supreme Court For A Ruling To See If The State Can Set Guidelines For every City or County's Civilian Review Board/Oversight Committee. If so who sets the guidelines certainly not the Police Unions otherwise we might at just use Phoenix Law Enforcement Association Civilian Oversight Committee that is stacked with police captains, assistant police chiefs and cvilian employee peers. So is this going to come down to the State Bar of Arizona or State Legislature to decide these training requirements, then these requirements are going to be challenged by whoever doesn't like what is decided.
If AZPOST or Phoenix Law Enforcement Association gets to set these requirements then you might as well use PLEA's version because nothing will ever get changed, now if you use attorney from the State Bar of Arizona that have experience not only in Police Procedure, State Law and past Court Rulings then you have something really to work for as attorneys experienced in Police Misconduct, Criminal Defense Attorneys and Past Proscecuters then you have a diverse group of experienced people that are one-sided biased to Police Unions like Phoenix Law Enforcement Association or to just favor the civilians, these people will follow the law and that is what is most important, can the Phoenix Law Enforcement Association agree with that last comment!
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"The Arizona Police Association applauded the signing of HB2567 into law by Governor Doug Ducey. The bill, sponsored by Rep. John Kavanagh, sets the requirements for a government committee, board or entity to investigate law enforcement officer’s misconduct.
The bill requires at least two-thirds of the membership of specified entities that investigate law enforcement officer misconduct to be Arizona Peace Officer Standards and Training (AZPOST) Board-certified officers.
The Arizona Police Association says HB2567 “simply makes police review boards consistent in their construction with all other professional occupational boards. It allows for industry professionals AND public/civilian members to evaluate the actions of those who come before it.”
The AZPOST Board consists of 13 members appointed by the Governor. The AZPOST Board is statutorily charged with prescribing minimum qualifications for officers. The AZPOST Board establishes minimum courses of training and minimum standards for training facilities for officers.
HB2567 provisions:
1. Requires two-thirds of the voting membership of any government committee, board or entity to be AZPOST certified law enforcement officers who are of any rank and from the same department or agency as the law enforcement officer who is the subject of investigation or disciplinary action if that committee, board or entity:
a) Investigates law enforcement officer misconduct;
b) Influences the conduct of or certifies law enforcement officer misconduct investigations;
c) Recommends disciplinary actions for law enforcement officer misconduct; or
d) Imposes discipline for law enforcement officer misconduct. (Sec. 1)
2. States that if the committee, board or entity consists of nonvoting members, no more than one-third of the members can be nonvoting members. (Sec. 1)
3. Allows a supervisor, a department or agency head that supervises a law enforcement officer to investigate and impose discipline for a law enforcement officer’s misconduct if the committee, board or entity does not meet the requirements to investigate. (Sec. 1)
4. States this does not apply to a governmental review committee, board or entity that does not determine the initial level of discipline or have authority to increase the severity of the disciplinary action. (Sec. 1)
5. Exempts AZPOST from the requirement that members of the government committee, board or entity be from the same department or agency. (Sec. 1)"
CPOA Director Harness,
Contacting the Mayor of Clovis may assist your investigation into the relationship between the NM Civil Gaurd and the Albuquerque Police Department.
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From this article..."Mike Morris, Clovis' mayor, said city police and New Mexico State Police have been in contact with the NM Civil Guard and Petty said his group is "following guidelines given to us by police." Petty added that the police are "completely fine with us being around. They wanted to make sure we don't look like law enforcement or military and so we're staying in plain clothes for this."
https://meaww.com/amp/who-are-the-new-mexico-civil-gaurd-militia-group-center-albuquerque-shooting-statue-protests
