Families of people killed by Vallejo police officers have asked the California Commission on Police Officer Standards and Training to investigate whether to take their badges away.
Civil rights advocates and family members of people killed by officers of the Vallejo Police Department made a passionate plea Thursday for a state oversight board to launch investigations into whether the officers should lose their badges. “Murder is murder,” one emotional mother, Angela Sullivan, told members of an advisory board for the California Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training.
Last year, the department paid a nearly $1-million settlement to a former police captain who alleged that he was fired after revealing that officers were routinely bending the corners of their badges to commemorate when an officer killed a civilian. The city commissioned an investigation into the alleged badge-bending, but has refused to release the report on it, despite ACLU lawyers' efforts to make it public.
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