Boston is set to consider wide scale police reforms. But many of them have been pitched before

 

Boston is set to consider wide scale police reforms. But many of them have been pitched before

If history is a guide, change won’t come easy.

By Milton J. Valencia and Gal Tziperman Lotan Globe Staff,Updated September 21, 2020, 6:42 p.m.
A task force is looking at ways to improve diversification and accountability within the Boston Police Department.
A task force is looking at ways to improve diversification and accountability within the Boston Police Department.DAVID L. RYAN/GLOBE STAFF

Over the last three decades, whenever a crisis of confidence in local law enforcement erupts, city officials turn to a task force for answers.

Each time, the task force recommended an array of Boston Police Department reforms, pitched as common sense policies that would address bias in policing and increase accountability within the force. And that’s often where it has fizzled out.

An independent office of accountability? The city doesn’t have one. A formal diversity and inclusion policy? Not yet. Even efforts to instill a zero-tolerance culture for lying have been fruitless. Each was pushed in the past — from the St. Clair Commission report in the early ’90s to a group formed in 2015 following unrest in Ferguson, Mo. — but failed to take hold in the face of pushback from police unions and entrenched political systems.


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