Los Angeles’s civilian oversight commission has adopted a resolution requiring the L.A. Sheriff’s office to post data involving police misconduct on its website within 60 days of any occurrence.

California’s Proposition 47, passed in 2014, moves funding from incarceration for non-violent offenders to programs designed to keep people out of the criminal justice system. This spring California will begin making grants to rehabilitation programs.

Long delays in reviewing police misconduct, documented in this Tribune article from March, 2017, reveal the city’s lack of attention to the issue.

Body cameras have proven an effective check on improper policing, but in too many cases they are not deployed when critical incidents take place.

Despite resistance from police groups and some city officials, federally directed reform efforts have improved policing and made citizens more secure. (April, 2017)

Policing changes spurred by Obama Justice Department efforts are saving lives, says this recent Chicago Tribune piece.

In this New York Times op-ed, two Obama administration Justice officials show how reform decrees arranged under the Obama Justice Department are making citizens more secure in their communities.

The vicissitudes of Pittsburgh’s 1997 consent decree point up the need for further and more vigorous efforts to stop abusive policing practices.

Several students of police review find that current models fall short.

There are now over 200 police oversight entities in the nation, but few have the power to enforce their conclusions upon often hostile police departments. Last November Oakland voters approved by 83% a ballot measure to create a police review board with power to discipline officers and even fire the police chief.