DFL's disgust with accountability is showing

Last year, the DFL's wing of the party that doesn't like police officers jammed through a bill that police officers, sheriffs' departments and other law enforcement organizations opposed that severely restricts School Resource Officers, aka SROs, which I wrote about here.

Apparently, the DFL intends on watering down the bill that's intended to fix last year's bill. Alpha News is reporting "Just two days into the 2024 legislative session DFL and Republican lawmakers are debating what that final bill might look like and what kind of impact it will have on school districts across Minnesota who employ the use of SROs in their buildings."

I don't doubt that a fix-it bill of some sort will pass this session. Unfortunately, I'm confident that the wing of the DFL that sees cops as bad guys will have too much influence on this bill. Walter Hudson explains what the DFL wanted to do in terms of eliminating accountability. He's quoted in the article as saying:

"What this bill does is it takes the language out of statute that provides two different standards for use of force for law enforcement, takes it out of the hands of this body, the legislature, and it puts it in the purview of the POST Board. If you think there is a separate standard that ought to be imposed in public schools, you are going to get your opportunity, it just won’t be here in a public forum, as part of the legislative process. All you are going to have to do is influence your activist friends who have been appointed by the governor to the POST Board."

Anyone thinking that the POST Board will be impartial is kidding themselves. They'll be as impartial as Al Sharpton at a rally protesting police. Walter Hudson's explanation is helpful in exposing what the DFL is attempting to do:

The DFL legislature doesn't want its fingerprints on defining Minnesota's reasonable use of force standards. They want it defined by an unelected, unaccountable board that's appointed by DFL Gov. Tim Walz. That's unacceptable! The legislature is supposed to make these definitions. The committee of jurisdiction have retired law enforcement officers on it as elected officials.

The DFL apparently wants to neuter the experts and empower the activists. If that sounds foolish, it should. We need more experts, fewer activists. That's because activists are biased and unaccountable to We The People.

Policymakers and decision-makers that aren't accouontable are worthless because there's no consequence if they make mistakes. Does that sound like a smart thing?

If you have time today, send Rep. Hudson an email thanking him for him fighting the good fight on behalf of SROs and Minnesota's kids. I'm sure he'd appreciate it.