California Attorney General Xavier Becerra announced an array of reform proposals Monday intended to reduce policing bias, modify use-of-force practices and increase accountability and transparency among local law enforcement agencies.
Becerra urged law enforcement agencies across the state to take reformative steps like banning the use of chokeholds and carotid restraints, requiring de-escalation before using force, and mandating comprehensive reporting of use-of-force incidents.
Becerra also said the state Department of Justice would support state legislation to place clear limits on crowd control techniques, ban the use of pepper spray against children, decertify law enforcement officers who
engage in serious misconduct, and expand the state’s capacity to review law enforcement policies and practices.
While the state Department of Justice does not have the authority to mandate such policy and procedure changes for law enforcement agencies across the state, Becerra said some of his proposals have already been adopted via the state Legislature.
Those include Senate Bill 230, which would require law enforcement agencies to adopt concrete use-of-force policies and undergo regular periodic training, and Assembly Billy 392, which limits when officers can use deadly force.
Gov. Gavin Newsom signed both bills into state law last year.
Many of Becerra’s proposals came from the state Department of Justice’s collaborative police reform efforts with the cities of Sacramento and Vallejo, the latter of which is still ongoing.
Becerra also said that the state is open to a discussion about ending qualified immunity for law enforcement, which makes it harder to remove and convict officers who commit serious misconduct.
“This should be a totally open conversation where all ideas should be put forward,” Becerra said. “We’ve put forward a number that we’ve explored and we’re open to discussing that and any other idea that you didn’t see on our list.”
You lost me at Xavier Becerra. Didn’t make it past the first sentence.
Tie their hands. That’s the ticket !!!
Who in their right mind would want to be a cop nowadays?
Lets hope an appropriate number still do. This is what happens when the government gets high jacked by the left. They should stick to wearing African shawls around their necks trying to please Black Americans that haven’t had a connection to Africa in two hundred years.
No mention of reviewing the collective bargaining agreement. They need to have a policy in place to kick out the POS cops quickly. Maybe “decertify law enforcement officers who engage in serious misconduct” is related. How about replace the work decertify, with fire!
At my workplace if you violate the code of conduct you’re immediately fired.
@ WC
Decertify is worse than fire! In the past, the bad cops have gone to new departments after being fired. Decertify removes their ability to become law enforcement officers in the state.
Announces a mandate that his office has no authority to enforce. What do we call that? Political grandstanding! Yes, this is our Attorney General that changes the wording on propositions so that they confuse the electorate into voting for them. Remember the gas tax! Total POS!
Don’t resist the Police!
Agree!
“This should be a totally open conversation where all ideas should be put forward,”
Will that totally open conversation include imposing the death penalty upon conviction of murdering a law enforcement officer, and actually carrying out the sentence? Otherwise, this is nothing more that a one sided lecture and virtue signalling.
Not while Kamala Harris is in power.
At this rate might as well buy stock in companies manufacturing participation trophies.
Assault on Police went into overdrive 22 July 2009 with dog whistle comment, “Cambridge police acted stupidly.”
Beer hall putz. Except the beer was on the White House lawn.
I guess the AG is not aware of FBI statistics and mandatory reporting. There are also POST guidelines for training in California. Sounds like another example political nonsense.
Statistics, facts, laws- none of it seems very popular anymore. Feelings, hypocrisy and mob rule are the new way, apparently. What a brave new world.
Let’s also have a “criminal reform bill” making it illegal for people to be criminals and/or engage in criminal activities ONLY while in the presence of law enforcement officers, to avoid any possibility of the two interacting.
Let us even take that one step further. I want to see some leaders in the black community to come up with some goals. Maybe a kind of 10 commandments.
What’s wrong with striving to become a model citizen?
It appears to be a new era. Even Obama recently said, “This is an opportunity “. An opportunity to do what? Maybe to start behaving. Quit breaking the law? Why not. The cops have to revise their act. Why not the citizens?
Until I see at least one commitment from the black community there will be no change,just a bunch of noise.
Same old criminals doing the same old s#&t and now expecting to get away with it. (Oh man could I go on)
The main topic of the “open conversations” on this issue needs to be total transparency of every record and statistic kept by law enforcement agencies across the nation.
Democrat politicians don’t care about the number of lives that are saved every day with law enforcement intervention, there’s no power to be gained from that. Instead, let’s focus on ‘educating’ everyone that doesn’t believe they are the root cause of ‘systemic racism’ that every facet of American life was built on.
These people are sick.
How do you de-escalate a perp who turns and runs away?
Especially a 45 year old cop?