St. Louis Police Now Under Civillian Oversight

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St. Louis Police Now Under Civillian Oversight

St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay nominated seven members of the first-ever Civillian Oversight Board on August 6, 2015.

According to the St. Louis City government we

The Board's function is to review and investigate citizen complaints against alleged misconduct of the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department.

In any case, one really has to wonder why honest cops would refuse civilian oversight. Leaving review and accountability to 'internal affairs' is a dumb idea. The state should always have an external oversight board for armed actors.

Remember, that is a town where persons employed as police while on duty would pick up pretty women in poor neighborhoods, take them to their homes and threaten them with imprisonment if they didn't do sexual favors. While most police in that department might be very upstanding. Those like the "pickup artists" would simply get fired, no jail time, no criminal charges. Keep in mind, that is a town where the so-called City officers would steal people's cars out of their driveways without any justification but with false claims to the point that the FBI had to come in and shut down their towing department. No recompensation. People would lose their jobs, their homes over inability to get to work, cars still under car notes or not--they didn't give a rat's #ss. But if the Black or White guy victims seem disgruntled when stopped, they get tazed or shot or called 'extremists'.

Links:

• St. Louis Cops Threaten Slowdown Over Civilian Oversight Board
• Civilian Oversight Board (COB)
• Slay nominates first members of Civilian Oversight Board of Police
• Slay Signs Bill Establishing St. Louis Police Civilian Oversight Board
• Police Are Learning To Accept Civilian Oversight, But Distrust Lingers