The Denver Police Department wants to allow officers facing disciplinary action or “lower-level” offenses to opt into educational training, rather than face punishments, a major change to its internal discipline process.
Pushing the shift is Ron Thomas, the police chief, who believes a training regimen would ultimately reduce the chances of officers re-offending and lead to quicker resolutions of disciplinary cases.
Critics, meanwhile, argued that the police department failed to provide enough details about the policy and that it hastily attempted to institute the new program without getting enough feedback from the public…