When Boulder created its Police Oversight Panel, the goal was to increase transparency and involve the community in police accountability. That mission may now be shifting. The city is implementing a change that gives the police monitor, not the panel, the power to decide which misconduct cases are reviewed.
Under the current process, the monitor summarizes every misconduct case for the 11-person panel. That structure was central to how the panel was envisioned, and its potential rollback has raised concerns among Boulder residents, including current panel members.
The change dominated discussion at the panel’s Nov. 10 meeting…