Posted on 05/03/2015 10:24:32 AM PDT by EBH
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A first-ever Ohio police standards board will lay out rules for law enforcement over the proper use of deadly force, Gov. John Kasich announced Wednesday in a move sparked by a series of fatal police shootings, including the November death of 12-year-old Tamir Rice in Cleveland.
The 12-member Ohio Collaborative Community-Police Advisory Board will create standards for hiring, recruiting and local community interaction — such as such as addressing safety issues and educating people on the daily challenges faced by officers — Kasich said.
Kasich said the state will heal its communities and "get ahead of the curve" of problems that have happened in other communities roiled by the deaths of black citizens at the hands of police.
"It is not acceptable to have these divisions between our friends in the African-American community and law enforcement," the governor said. "It is not acceptable to have a gap. We will bridge this gap."
Other standards will deal with effective lines of communication between police and citizens and strategies for how both police and the communities they serve can hold each other accountable for their actions, Kasich said.
The board, which will be composed of police and community members, will issue an annual report on its work and whether local police agencies are following the standards.
The governor said he believes departments will comply but he's willing to pressure agencies personally if they don't. Kasich said there's a cost to creating the standards, and he will seek new money to fund them, though perhaps not in this year's budget proposal...
...The task force emphasized accountability, trust, training and education. The panel's broad categories of possible changes to police departments include mandatory use of force standards and minimum statewide hiring policies.
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Setting the example for the nation?
“our friends in the African-American community”
Interesting choice of words.
divisions between our friends in the African-American community and law enforcement
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Ignoring the glaringly obvious distinction that there is required to be a division between law enforcement and criminal lawbreakers. Without that division, law enforcement is not needed. But of course they had to single out the AA’s, ignoring all the other criminal ethnicities out there. Pandering gutless politicians.
Sounds good but down the road you will have a problem, higher standards will mean you find yourself in trouble unless you lower those standards for specific minority groups, no matter what you do even if from the Governor on down are all minorities you will still be RACIST, a vicious liberal progressive communist circle.
I don’t think it is a problem having state oversight. However, the more centralized it is the more risk of corruption you get. He needs to be sure there is a balance of power and ideological tension or he might find that rather than make things better, his standards board affords a lot of opportunity to make things worse. Human natures being what it is, power easily corrupts people. Those with no power are just as easily corrupted (see Baltimore) which is dangerous, just not as dangerous.
What an idiot.
Not all communities are the same and police should be able to react appropriately according to their own experience in those communities.
That is the paradox.
Judging from Cleveland's situation, the problem to be solved is that community policing has been abandoned in favor of concentrating police "downtown" to keep tourists and workers safe.
Because there are no police out in neighborhoods where people live, whenever there's a situation, police are speeding to get there and arriving in the heat of an unknown situation. There's no positive interaction with the community, so the young people see the police as someone who show up to arrest people.
That's the real story of the Tamir Rice tragedy. Where that happened, and considering all the potential flashpoints nearby, the crime is that police weren't there on a regular basis.
Naw,it’s just Kasich doing what he does best.Kissing ass before an election.He fancies himself to be a contender for the Republican nomination.But he’s a Jeb clone in my opinion.
They too, individually, should be subject to the court system, just as non-government individuals are. Our 'Justice System' had become perverted and must be straightened out... somehow. Suggestions ?
Well said.
That’s just it, again the answer ends up being more centralized control, which then will generate the systemic racism the left so desperately wants.
I just cannot believe Kasich(R) is going merrily down this road too.
You said it brother, Kasich has his sights set on running for President and is throwing the police under the bus to begin his run.
These “blame the police” politicians are nothing more than Pontius Pilates.
They say the police must change. When will the welfare enabling politicians change? They are the ones that are responsible for inner city poverty and ghettos.
I will vote for none of them. The republican party has backstabbed me for the last time.
Go pound sand GOP.
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