Email to my local Nebraska State Senator Re Sen Wayne Bill Police Oversight

Reference: https://www.facebook.com/JaKeenFox/posts/10105655480683343

Greetings, Senator X, 

I'd like to thank you for voting to allow Senator Wayne to introduce a bill on police oversight. I don't know what your opinions may be so far, but I think it is of utmost importance to support Senator Wayne's bill and create a civilian committee for police oversight. If police are to serve and protect citizens, they need to be held accountable to citizens. 

It's disappointing to see tragedies unfold with officers of the law and then see that they had received multiple complaints against them with no action taken to improve their performance or remove them from a position of great power.

I know people toss around the 'a few bad apples' idea, but the rest of that phrase is "spoils the bunch". I've seen examples of "good cops" trying to be proactive in reporting misdeeds of fellow officers and then being punished or threatened for speaking up.

If a mob mentality exists in our police force, it's time to address it and do everything we can, such as remove qualified immunity so police are responsible and can't hide their aggression behind a badge.

As far as 'defunding', I doubt in the rural area you represent that police budgets are as unbalanced as in larger cities, but we have to take special care to focus on ways to financially support agencies that would alleviate the load set on police.

Again, thank you for voting to allow Sen Wayne's bill to be introduced. I do hope you support what can be a great bridge between officers of the law, and they people they are supposed to protect.

Thank you




Update: My Senator responded:

D, thank you for the email, and thanks for being engaged by watching the legislative process. Senator Wayne will have a hearing next week on the bill, probably thursday or friday, it will be streamed on NET, stay safe