"There is so much work left to do," said Austin City Council member Greg Casar, who is a vocal advocate of stronger police reforms. Even the strongest proponents of the civilian oversight model say it, alone, isn't enough to reform policing in America. "The answer to me isn't that there is something fundamentally wrong with the premise of civilian oversight," he said. By contrast, one of the nation's strongest civilian oversight boards is located in the northern half of California -- the Oakland Police Commission. NACOLE recently completed a survey of civilian oversight agencies, including 54 that oversee municipal police departments, and provided the unpublished results to CNN.

Source: CNN June 25, 2020 18:26 UTC