5. Why not televise? Months ago, I came out against televised PFC meetings, on the theory that television would inhibit complaints. It was a faint hope.
Candidly, it’s the reputation of leadership that makes reliance on any supposedly confidential process dubious.
I’ll ask a question: Have police leaders ever sat in on citizen-commissioner interviews of police candidates? If even those interviews have not been confidential to citizen-commissioners, then a complaints process in that forum would be unreliable.
Go ahead and show the community the public workings of the PFC public meetings as other commissions routinely and confidently do.