DPD requests $8.6M for tasers; category 1 use-of-force incidents up 10%; family claims report of police harassment ignored.
Hi again! At 3 p.m. I’ll live-tweet the Detroit Board of Police Commissioners (BOPC) meeting for #DETdocumenters. 🧵
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01:15 PM Feb 2, 2023 CST
👀 Commissioners will review the 2024 police budget and hear a quarterly presentation on the police department’s use of force.
Join this meeting online, by phone or in person: https://detroitmi.gov/events/board-police-commissioners-meeting-february-2-2023
We’ll have more notes and archived materials from this meeting: https://detroit.documenters.org/assignments/board-of-police-commissioners-5534/
📎 Today’s agenda: https://detroitmi.gov/sites/detroitmi.localhost/files/events/2023-02/Agenda%20February%202%2C%202023.pdf https://t.co/o4A4TNFj8L
⏮ The last BOPC meeting we covered — Bridget Scallen took notes: https://detroit.documenters.org/assignments/board-of-police-commissioners-5486/
And Alex Klaus live-tweeted: https://twitter.com/mostlikelyalex/status/1618696422899216384
🗞 Detroit residents and union workers protested the Memphis police killing of Tyre Nichols, calling for the release of video footage of the incident and the end of discriminatory policing. From @jennapresti and @nrahal1: https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/detroit/2023/01/28/tyre-nichols-video-protesters-seek-justice/69849504007/
🗞 Detroit residents and union workers protested the Memphis police killing of Tyre Nichols, calling for the release of video footage of the incident and the end of discriminatory policing. From @jennapresti and @nrahal1: https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/detroit/2023/01/28/tyre-nichols-video-protesters-seek-justice/69849504007/
The Wayne County juvenile jail has ended a policy of confining young people exposed to COVID-19 for up to 10 days without recreation or showers. Parents are still unhappy with the jail’s treatment of their children. From @cmacfreep: https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/wayne/2023/01/19/wayne-county-juvenile-jail-quarantine-covid-19-outbreak/69821676007/