Covering some of the details of police policy and practice

Police 1 Minute

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Public Safety Committee meeting video here

President Waldron — the Council administrator — covered some nuts and bolts kinds of topics with (primarily) Deputy Meixell:

  • the genesis and process of policy change
  • the frequency of accreditor oversight (annually)
  • ability to make immediate changes in policy at local level (yes)Waldron
  • last major revision (approx 6 years ago)
  • correlation between use of force and injury
  • complaint system tracks claims of injury after arrest
  • gun used in all instances of deadly force (yes)
  • tasers
  • tracking of mental health calls (needs improvement)
  • officer compliance to reporting use of force (90+%)
  • body camera policy (all official police action)

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Edward J. Gallagher, Bethlehem immigrant, retired, nearly 50 years as Professor of American Literature at Lehigh University, known as "Dr. G" and "Conan the Grammarian" to students, whose virtual world avatar "EdwardScholarhands" stares at you here, has reinvented himself as the Bethlehem Gadfly.

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