Citizen Tay calls for City ordinance increasing citizens' participation in transparency and accountability of all police activities

On April 23rd, 2014, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker signed a new law that was the first of its kind in the nation. The new law requires an independent investigation of police officers when someone dies or is killed while in police custody.  It’s an important new law for many reasons, but none more important than the fact that police departments and officers across the county often elude accountability and transparency by conducting internal investigations of shootings and civilian deaths involving their officers. The police get to investigate themselves and determine whether a crime has been committed when someone dies in their custody.  As to be expected in a system that judges its own, most police officers walk from these incidents with barely a slap on the wrist.
Read more at http://thefreethoughtproject.com/mans-activism-led-law-requiring-independent-investigations-deaths-police-custody/#YTpM6gQDHJVdgwJ2.99

Should Tulsa Police investigate itself?