• About
  • Advertise
  • Contact
  • Careers
  • EEO PUBLIC FILE REPORT
  • FCC Public File
  • FCC Applications
  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms of Use
Friday, January 27, 2023
WTMJ
  • Home
  • News
    • Local
    • National
    • Coronavirus
    • Featured Stories
    • Decision Wisconsin
    • Guest Editorials
  • Weather
    • Closings and Delays
    • Flight Status
    • Interactive Radar
    • Watches and Warnings
  • Traffic
    • Construction Updates
  • Sports
    • Green Bay Packers
      • Green & Gold Podcast
      • Second Screen
    • Milwaukee Brewers
      • Brewers Extra Innings
      • First Pitch
    • Milwaukee Bucks
      • Bucks Talk
      • Bucks Flagship Podcast
    • NCAA
    • Extra Points
  • Shows
    • Wisconsin’s Morning News
    • Steve Scaffidi
    • Jeff Wagner
    • Wisconsin’s Afternoon News
      • Spectacular Scandinavia with John Mercure and Collette
    • WTMJ Nights
    • Wisconsin’s Weekend Morning News
    • WTMJ Conversations
    • Reporter’s Notebook
    • Featured Shows
      • Accunet Mortgage & Realty Show
      • Creative Planning presents, Rethink Your Money with John Hagensen
      • Drake & Associates Retirement Ready Show
      • Every Day Health
      • Fix It Show
      • Hired! The GKB Recruitment Show
      • Money Talk, The Annex Wealth Management Show
  • Podcasts
    • The Steve Scaffidi Show
    • Jeff Wagner Podcast
    • WTMJ Conversations Podcast
    • WTMJ Nights
    • Green & Gold Podcast
    • Brewers Extra Innings Podcast
    • First Pitch
    • Bucks Flagship Podcast
  • Features
    • Spectacular Scandinavia with John Mercure and Collette
    • 2022 Holiday Radio Show and Kids2Kids Christmas
    • Annex Wealth Management Webinar
    • Wagner’s Home Improvement Showcase
    • Every Day Health
  • Contests
LISTEN LIVE
No Result
View All Result
WTMJ
  • Home
  • News
    • Local
    • National
    • Coronavirus
    • Featured Stories
    • Decision Wisconsin
    • Guest Editorials
  • Weather
    • Closings and Delays
    • Flight Status
    • Interactive Radar
    • Watches and Warnings
  • Traffic
    • Construction Updates
  • Sports
    • Green Bay Packers
      • Green & Gold Podcast
      • Second Screen
    • Milwaukee Brewers
      • Brewers Extra Innings
      • First Pitch
    • Milwaukee Bucks
      • Bucks Talk
      • Bucks Flagship Podcast
    • NCAA
    • Extra Points
  • Shows
    • Wisconsin’s Morning News
    • Steve Scaffidi
    • Jeff Wagner
    • Wisconsin’s Afternoon News
      • Spectacular Scandinavia with John Mercure and Collette
    • WTMJ Nights
    • Wisconsin’s Weekend Morning News
    • WTMJ Conversations
    • Reporter’s Notebook
    • Featured Shows
      • Accunet Mortgage & Realty Show
      • Creative Planning presents, Rethink Your Money with John Hagensen
      • Drake & Associates Retirement Ready Show
      • Every Day Health
      • Fix It Show
      • Hired! The GKB Recruitment Show
      • Money Talk, The Annex Wealth Management Show
  • Podcasts
    • The Steve Scaffidi Show
    • Jeff Wagner Podcast
    • WTMJ Conversations Podcast
    • WTMJ Nights
    • Green & Gold Podcast
    • Brewers Extra Innings Podcast
    • First Pitch
    • Bucks Flagship Podcast
  • Features
    • Spectacular Scandinavia with John Mercure and Collette
    • 2022 Holiday Radio Show and Kids2Kids Christmas
    • Annex Wealth Management Webinar
    • Wagner’s Home Improvement Showcase
    • Every Day Health
  • Contests
LISTEN LIVE
No Result
View All Result
WTMJ
No Result
View All Result

‘There are a number of provisions in here that are deeply concerning’: State police association opposes House police reform bill

WTMJ News by WTMJ News
March 4, 2021
in News
Reallocating police money critical for ‘systemic change’: Milwaukee Community Journal editor

Photo: Tony Bettack

Share on FacebookShare on TwitterEmail

MILWAUKEE — A sweeping police reform bill is on its way to the Senate after being passed by the House late Wednesday night.

The George Floyd Justice in Policing Act aims to ban chokeholds, no-knock search warrants, alter qualified immunity among other things, but it’s drawing concerns from police associations.

“There are things that can be done to strengthen policing…but there are a number of provisions in here that are deeply concerning,” said Executive Director of the Wisconsin Professional Police Association Jim Palmer.

Palmer says removing an officer’s qualified immunity–which protects them from civil suits unless they violate established constitutional rights–is among their greatest concerns.

“We require officers to exercise discretion under extraordinary life or death circumstances,” he told WTMJ. “To eliminate qualified immunity, it basically says an officer can go to prison for an unintentional act that unknowingly broke a right that a court had never determined was a right.”

The bill has the support of Wisconsin Senator Tammy Baldwin.

“[Qualified immunity] prevents so many from recovering damages when a police officer violates their constitutional rights,” Baldwin told 101.7 The Truth’s MKE in the Morning. “The reforms that were included in the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act have been proposals for a long, long time, and were put together because they’re long overdue for advancing.”

Palmer notes that there are provisions in the bill that can improve policing, but not if included in the bill as a whole.

“There’s a lot of value in enhancing the efforts to collect law enforcement data,” he said. “We don’t have more timely data relative to crime and law enforcement officer’s use of force, and I think that’s a severe problem.”

He says de-escalation training and crisis intervention is also a positive, though the House’s bill does not include additional funding for those measures.

Listen to the complete interview with Jim Palmer in the player above.

Previous Post

New board game with Wisconsin flavor now available

Next Post

Man accused of Killing Wisconsin Brothers in 2019 facing new charge

WTMJ News

WTMJ News

Stay Connected

  • 22.3k Followers
  • 1k Follower
  • 679 Subscribers

Most Popular

Fatal shooting at Azerbaijan Embassy in Iran raises tensions

January 27, 2023

Video shows struggle for hammer during Pelosi attack

January 27, 2023

Spanish ministry: ‘Bomb workshop’ found in retiree’s home

January 27, 2023

4 of NFL’s best TEs on display in conference title games

January 27, 2023
Milwaukee Police

“Policing must always respect human dignity”: Milwaukee leaders condemn Memphis police murder

January 27, 2023
WTMJ

For more than 90 years, WTMJ-AM has been "Wisconsin's Radio Station".

Follow Us

Home

News

Weather

Traffic

Sports

Shows

Podcasts

Features

Careers

Contests

Recent News

Fatal shooting at Azerbaijan Embassy in Iran raises tensions

January 27, 2023

Video shows struggle for hammer during Pelosi attack

January 27, 2023
  • Home
  • News
  • Weather
  • Traffic
  • Sports
  • Shows
  • Podcasts
  • Features
  • Contests

© 2022 Good Karma Brands, LLC.

  • LISTEN LIVE
  • Home
  • News
    • News
    • Local News
    • Coronavirus
    • Decision Wisconsin
  • Weather
    • Weather
    • Watches and Warnings
    • Closings and Delays
    • Flight Status
  • Traffic
  • Construction Updates
  • Sports
    • Sports
    • Green Bay Packers
    • Milwaukee Brewers
    • Milwaukee Bucks
  • Shows
    • Shows
    • Wisconsin’s Morning News
    • Steve Scaffidi
    • Jeff Wagner
    • Wisconsin’s Afternoon News
      • Spectacular Scandinavia with John Mercure and Collette
    • WTMJ Nights
    • WTMJ Conversations
    • Featured Shows
  • Podcasts
  • Features
    • Features
    • Good Karma Give Back
    • WTMJ Roundtable
  • Contests
  • Alexa
No Result
View All Result

© 2022 Good Karma Brands, LLC.