[Peace-discuss] CPRB -- offer the Champaign City Council what they ask for?

[Stuart Levy]

[sending this to peace-discuss as well as announce -- sorry if you get this twice]

As Aaron Ammons mentioned this morning on WEFT,
at least two of the Champaign City Council members who voted against
any CPRB discussion did that because (they say) they think the Council
itself should be the body overseeing the police department.

They might well also believe the Fraternal Order of Police lawyer
that there are only a couple dozen complaints per year against
Champaign police, and his insinuation that most of those are either
unfounded or insignificant.

On the other hand we also heard that there are something like 300
police complaints per year received otherwise -- by the NAACP, Urban League,
Ministerial Alliance, and I'm sure elsewhere -- to Martel, to CUCPJ, ...

So: if the Council thinks they want to oversee complaints,
can we give them to them, anonymized, without names
(neither of complainers nor officers) but with incidents intact?

I don't expect this practice to convince Tom Bruno or
Mayor Schweighart, who really just don't seem to be listening,
but it might contribute to the education of others.

   Stuart Levy