Four of the newly elected members of the Board of Police Commissioners have officially been sworn in.
Henrietta Ivey, Darious Morris, Beverly Watts, and Victoria Camille, who represent Districts 1, 3, 5, and 7, respectively, were sworn in Wednesday by City Clerk Janice Winfrey at the historic Ossian Sweet House on the city’s Southeast side. Ivey, Morris and Watts all won as write-in candidates in their races.
The Board of Police Commissioners is the city’s civilian oversight board, which former Mayor Coleman Young created in 1974 to help residents have recourse when dealing with police officers accused of misconduct. The STRESS Unit, which was a Detroit police unit, began harassing, beating and killing mostly young Black men in 1971, which further damaged the relationship between the city’s law enforcement officers and the residents…