Opinion: Despite reform, California is failing to properly police its cops
Despite being a Democratic bastion, California has had some of the nation’s slimmest law-enforcement oversight. We were one of only a few states that had no process for decertifying misbehaving officers. A 2006 state Supreme Court decision placed most misconduct information off limits to public oversight. Lawmakers’ coziness with police unions derailed even the most modest accountability proposals.
In particular, former AG Xavier Becerra flouted the state’s new public records laws – and claimed his department didn’t have the money to enforce Assembly Bill 1506, which required the AG to investigate many police shootings. We believed that situation would change after President Joe Biden tapped Becerra for a federal post and Gov. Gavin Newsom replaced him with former Assemblyman Rob Bonta.
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