Maryland lawmakers passed legislation Saturday and became the first state to end its Bill of Rights for the police after the Democratic-controlled Legislature voted to replace three of Republican Gov. Larry Hogan’s vetoes.
The comprehensive reform bills also remove protection in the police force for alleged misconduct that critics say has hampered accountability and will give citizens a role, The Baltimore Sun reported.
The reform package also raises the civil liability limit for officers from $ 400,000 to $ 890,000 and an officer convicted of using excessive force that caused serious injuries or death could be sentenced to ten years in prison. It also sets a new nationwide standard for what is considered an essential force.
Within the reforms, officers will also be limited to daytime for ‘no-knock’ raids, except in emergencies, and body cameras will have a mandate by 2025.
MARYLAND GOV. LARRY HOGAN VETOES 3 MEASURES Police reform
Proponents of her case have been working to make the actual transcript of this statement available online. Proponents of her case have been working to make the actual transcript of this statement available online.
Hogan explained in his veto that he thought the bills would further undermine the police’s morale, community relations and public confidence.
“They will result in large-scale operations and detention of police, and this will pose a major risk to public safety in our entire country,” he wrote.
“They will result in large-scale operations and detention of police, and this will pose a major risk to public safety in our entire country.”
Maryland Governor Larry Hogan.
Republican Sen. Robert Cassilly said the reform package “provides for the consideration of people sitting in the easy chairs to judge people who have made decisions in a volatile situation.”
Democratic State Senator Charles Sydnor, who sponsored one of the measures, said: “Last year I attended and demonstrated several demonstrations of people demanding change – the old and young, people of all races and lives. With so many situations because we before our eyes were pushed, we could no longer deny what we saw, and I thank my colleagues for believing their eyes and listening to the majority of Marylanders. ‘
Maryland approved the country’s first Bill of Rights in 1974, and about 20 states passed similar laws setting out procedures for investigating police misconduct. Maryland is the first to repeal the law.
According to The Sun, critics of Maryand’s police charter called it one of the “extreme” countries.
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On Friday, the Democratic state Del. Vanessa Atterbeary accuses Hogan of not standing with “black and brown people in the state MD! Police cruelty and their families that their lives do not matter. He tells black Marylanders that there is no systemic racism in policing No. HARM HIM, “she tweeted.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.