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Related: About this forum"Occupy is dead." Community Review Board Submitted to the San Diego City Clerk for No
Jan 5, 2915 (San Diego) Over the last year or so, Women Occupy has been trying to get City Council to review the workings of the Police Citizens Review Board (CRB). This, according to Kate Yavenditti has been quite unsuccessful. Never mind that they have tried to work through the charter review process. They are presenting a ballot initiative, to place this on the November Ballot.
Yavenditti sais that “Women Occupy and the National Lawyers guild were part of the legal team helping the occupies, and when we saw the police misconduct and brutality that was inflicted on the occupies we wanted to do something about it.” This is the origin of the work that has led ot this proposal.
One of the first actions taken was the filing of 17 complaints with the Citizens review board and nothing happened with them. Later on both the Chair told them and Vice chair that they never even saw those 17 complaints.
Yavenditti sais that “Women Occupy and the National Lawyers guild were part of the legal team helping the occupies, and when we saw the police misconduct and brutality that was inflicted on the occupies we wanted to do something about it.” This is the origin of the work that has led ot this proposal.
One of the first actions taken was the filing of 17 complaints with the Citizens review board and nothing happened with them. Later on both the Chair told them and Vice chair that they never even saw those 17 complaints.
http://reportingsandiego.com/2016/01/05/community-review-board-submitted-to-the-san-diego-city-clerk-for-november-ballot/
By the way, the confluence of groups here in San Diego regarding this issue crosses ethnic and class lines. Pastor Fore is also one of the local founders of the local chapter of the National Action Network, which is one of the fastest growing organizations. For the record, we also had members of the Nation of Islam, and a few other community groups. We only quoted speakers and affiliation though. You cover this enough, you know who is who.
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"Occupy is dead." Community Review Board Submitted to the San Diego City Clerk for No (Original Post)
nadinbrzezinski
Jan 2016
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mountain grammy
(27,378 posts)1. I'm so glad they are pursuing the issue..
citizens have a right to not be abused and harassed by the police. An independent review board is essential in all communities.
I joined NAN a while back because I respect Al Sharpton and I think this organization is doing good things.
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)2. As media we can't
but they are pretty good... even if locally they are just getting started
Scuba
(53,475 posts)3. I love news about the future!