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Government,
Criminal

Jun. 19, 2020

California police chiefs want to decertify officers with histories of misconduct

Law enforcement agencies were also urged Thursday to develop a system for tracking resigning officers who are under investigation or are set to be terminated. And the association said it supports mandating the attorney general’s office investigate deadly force incidents if requested by a local agency.

Calls to codify a policy for decertifying officers who fail to uphold their responsibilities gained traction from California police chiefs Thursday.

At a virtual news conference announcing a platform of more than a half dozen proposals to change police accountability practices, leaders of the California Police Chiefs Association, which represents all 332 municipal police chiefs in the state, said officers convicted of any felonies o...

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