The commission charged with making recommendations for the handling of police misconduct complaints in New Hampshire held preliminary discussions on Thursday afternoon, focusing on who should hold the authority, where a new state agency would reside, and what actually constitutes misconduct.
The commission is tasked with sending its recommendations to the legislature by the end of October. John Scippa, director of the Police Standards and Training Council, said, “From a fiscal point of view and from an efficiency point of view, it would certainly be advantageous to leave [the handling of misconduct complaints] at Police Standards and Training; … with a very responsible increase in resources and training, we will be able to, in my opinion, move this forward in a way that speaks to the spirit of what the LEACT Commission was attempting to correct.”
The Governor’s Law Enforcement Accountability, Community and Transparency Commission was established in the aftermath of the videotaped death of George Floyd, and the LEACT Commission made a number of recommendations to ensure that complaints of police misconduct would be impartially evaluated.
Attorney Julian Jefferson of the Public Defender’s Office said the Office of Professional Licensure and Certification has a built-in infrastructure that includes prosecutors and investigators that “beyond a shadow of a doubt are truly independent.” He quoted Scippa as having said, “I didn’t start this job to investigate other police officers.”
The commission will begin formulating its recommendations to the governor and legislature next week.
Questioning Police Legitimacy
Policing minister Kit Malthouse said that, in the wake of Sarah Everard’s murder by a Met Police officer who had kidnapped her under the guise of an arrest, people stopped by a lone plain-clothes officer should challenge the officer’s legitimacy.
Wayne Couzens abducted the 33-year-old as she walked home from a friend’s house in south London last March. He reportedly showed a warrant card and used handcuffs to kidnap her before her rape and murder. He has been sentenced to a whole-life prison term.
“There is a job to be done to rebuild trust by the police, particularly, I have to say, in London,” Malthouse told BBC Breakfast.
Concentration Camp Secretary Arrested
German police have detained Irmgard Furchner, a 96-year-old woman charged with Holocaust-related crimes for her role as a secretary in a Nazi concentration camp, after she absconded before her trial, set to begin on Thursday morning. The judge issued an arrest warrant after she failed to appear in court.
Furchner had boarded a taxi at her retirement home near Hamburg and headed to a train station, according to the court. A police patrol arrested her on a street in Hamburg later that day.
Furchner, who served as a secretary to the commander of the Stutthof concentration camp during World War II, was charged with being accessory to the murder of more than 11,000 inmates, some of whom were tortured and killed by gas. The corpses of some inmates were processed into soap which was then used at a local medical academy in the city of Danzig, today’s Gdansk.
Readers Write: The World We Live In
In the past several years we have experienced our world becoming very different.
There was Obama, first black president
Trump, we all know he was very different
Biden, some wonder who is running the show in DC
COVID, where did that come from
Tele-Health Care, don’t need to see doctors in person any more
Remote learning, could be used for good if done correctly
Lockdowns, never in my 60 plus years have I experienced this
Masks, we’re told to wear them
Vaccines, we’re told to get them, not one, not two, but multiple shots
Be vaccinated or potentially lose your job
What is next? I could only guess what is coming our way, but I’ll leave that up to your knowledge, wisdom, and speculation.
Do you need relief from all this? I have a suggestion for getting through all this. Ask Jesus Christ into your life, ask God to forgive your sins (if you are true to yourself, you know you have done something wrong at one time or another). One year Jesus died on a cross for you. He did not do it for himself, but for you. Now this is where faith comes in. If you asked and believe (faith) then know God will forgive you. This is a very simple ask of God, but we must ask and acknowledge our sins to him.
Now what does He give you in return?
Relief from caring around those sins
Learn what is true and what is not
Eternal life (this is huge)
You will not have to go through the Tribulation (very terrible time to come)
You get true freedom
You now belong to God’s nation/kingdom
A new home in heaven when that time comes
Peace that the world cannot give
I hope you can see the importance of a decision like this is and it is my hope you have the chance to make this decision before it is too late. We only live once and we have only one life to live so make a choice that offers you so much.
Be safe, be kind, be loving, be forgiving even when it is undeserved. Have wisdom and knowledge which will guide you and lastly trust God no matter what happens.
John Sellers
Bristol
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