{"id":137883,"date":"2019-02-20T23:06:47","date_gmt":"2019-02-21T06:06:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2019\/02\/20\/california-police-unions-fight-to-protect-police-misconduct-from-becoming-public.html"},"modified":"2019-02-20T23:06:47","modified_gmt":"2019-02-21T06:06:47","slug":"california-police-unions-fight-to-protect-police-misconduct-from-becoming-public","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2019\/02\/20\/california-police-unions-fight-to-protect-police-misconduct-from-becoming-public.html","title":{"rendered":"California police unions fight to protect police misconduct from becoming public"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new California law opens up police misconduct records around excessive violence and sexual misconduct to the public. But, for some mysterious reason, police unions in the state are fighting tooth and nail to keep the law from going fully into effect, or to restrict such record releases to misconduct that occurs only after the law went into effect on January 1st.<\/p>\n<p>It&#39;s almost as if the police are trying to cover up wrongdoing. Which surely cannot be the case, right?<\/p>\n<p>Of course, in some cases the police unions have local city support. Special bonus point to the City of Inglewood that decided in December to shred official records on over 100 officers dating back to 1991. <\/p>\n<p>Law and order, indeed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='https:\/\/theappeal.org\/california-police-unions-fight-new-state-law-promising-transparency-on-misconduct-records\/'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/yG4Zq9ceNDf4MOxHqIRDvHUiKqSj_l7jWrdAPXeBWveSbPrr9Yg8gGEPauLWKrZSysz6vWNwsDQP963gMdF4lnXsvB7MOwLPS1AyRg2cnxw=w506-h910' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='https:\/\/theappeal.org\/california-police-unions-fight-new-state-law-promising-transparency-on-misconduct-records\/'>California Police Unions Fight New State Law Promising Transparency on Misconduct Records<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nSenate Bill 1421 requires law enforcement agencies to make public investigative records of officer-involved shootings and uses of force resulting in great bodily harm. But law enforcement unions argue that the law threatens the privacy of their members.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/JZAay9XmhkK'>Original Post<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new California law opens up police misconduct records around excessive violence and sexual misconduct to the public. But, for some mysterious reason, police unions in the state are fighting tooth and nail to keep the law from going fully into effect, or to restrict such record releases to misconduct that occurs only after the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2019\/02\/20\/california-police-unions-fight-to-protect-police-misconduct-from-becoming-public.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;California police unions fight to protect police misconduct from becoming public&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":23842,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/18\/pushed-to-the-edge.html","url_meta":{"origin":137883,"position":0},"title":"Pushed to the edge","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 18-Nov-11 1:25pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Sooner or later, enough \"not hippies\" will get pushed around and abused by this kind of police misconduct that there may actually be some sort of accountability for it. 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Problems with minorities, problems around civil forfeiture, problems with military equipment, problems with shootings and a sense that the cops are more interested sometimes protecting their own than the general public.That\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/16%2B-%2B1imgmax%3D660.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/16%2B-%2B1imgmax%3D660.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/16%2B-%2B1imgmax%3D660.png?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":134502,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/09\/01\/california-rejects-idea-never-ending-generic-police-investigations.html","url_meta":{"origin":137883,"position":3},"title":"California rejects the idea of never-ending generic &#8220;police investigations&#8221;","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 1-Sep-17 9:14am","format":false,"excerpt":"The ACLU and EFF have won a ruling in the California Supreme Court that the massive databases California law enforcement collect by simply recording the license plates of every car that passes by a given spot cannot be held indefinitely or in secret just because they might some day be\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/police-surveillance.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":136746,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/06\/12\/aint-that-a-kick-in-the-head.html","url_meta":{"origin":137883,"position":4},"title":"Ain&#8217;t that a kick in the head?","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 12-Jun-18 7:45pm","format":false,"excerpt":"While I am largely a fan of organized labor as a counter-balance against the inherent power of large employers whose wealth and power to hire\/fire gives them the opportunity to exploit workers ... despite that, one except that continues to become all the more glaring in it danger are police\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/unnamed-1.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":27546,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/04\/24\/who-wants-to-stop-pot-follow-the-money.html","url_meta":{"origin":137883,"position":5},"title":"Who wants to stop pot? 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