Thank you for your support of the Pasadena Branch of the NAACP this year. This has been a year like no other. With your help, we demanded and got a Civilian Oversight Commission of the Police Department and an Independent Police Auditor.
But civilian oversight was just the first of the demands we listed in our Pasadena Community Bill of Rights, which we co-wrote with our partners at National Day Laborer Organizing Network (NDLON). Here are just a few of the other ten items in this Bill of Rights:
- Divert police funds to human needs – toward health, social services, job skills development and youth programs; hire and train civilian community liaisons
- Reform policies on the use of force – comply with state law AB392; forbid use of bodyweight to pin a suspect on the ground, the “positional asphyxia” that killed George Floyd
- End racial profiling – record data for reasons for stopping subjects, subjects’ race and age, and report this data quarterly to the public, Police Oversight Commission and Independent Police Auditor
- End conflicts of interest – City attorney should not represent officers accused of misconduct in cases where the behavior, if done by a civilian, would be considered a crime.
Your support of the Community Bill of Rights is your agreement that being safe from police abuse should be a basic tenet for a new Pasadena.
