Police Accountability
Both individual officers and law enforcement agencies should be held to account for their actions.
Police accountability. By paul hughes republican american hartford potential splits between democratic and republican lawmakers on police reform emerged friday during the rollout of a draft of a wide ranging police accountability bill. The national police accountability project is a project of the national lawyers guild a non profit membership organization of plaintiffs lawyers law students and legal workers dedicated to ending law enforcement and detention officer abuse of authority. Police are expected to uphold laws regarding due process search and seizure arrests discrimination as well as other laws relating to equal employment sexual harassment etc. 1 introduction accountability is a vital element of american policing.
What the bill does the police accountability act would make it a federal crime for a police officer to. Later the police department created its own office of professional accountability but data from 2005 to 2015 show that of complaints initiated by civilians the office finds against the officer. Most prominently in recent years was the trump administration s july decision not to initiate a case against new york city police officer daniel pantaleo after his killing of eric garner was filmed and went viral. Some of the more sweeping provisions propose creating an independent office to.