If the whole civilian review board idea is foreign to the readers here, don't feel left out. It's also strange to those of us who live in Louisville. It is a proposal that could never grow teeth under the old government, but that the new Metro Council rammed down our throats (by a vote of 25-0, 1 abstention) without even posting on their ever-changing council agenda, two days after Mayor Jerry suggested it would be a swell idea.
We have a "Civilian Review Board" in a large city near me. It is political in the extreme. The mayors, from either party, use the board to "park" political hacks on it so the hack has an income while planning to run for some other office. Or to reward political supporters by an appointment to the CRB, so the supporter gets a city car, with driver and feels important. They have lunch with the Mayor.
CRB's are not, IMO, worth the money.