When she was a candidate running for mayor, Wu outlined the idea as 'A Blueprint for Police Reform through Union Contracts.'
It's a move made in recent years by Berkeley, California. It has people in Boston like Khalen Roye wondering if it would be beneficial to bring here.
"That sounds tough," he said."I have seen stories where an officer pulls someone over and in an ambush just gets shot down." "We need to do a better job of weeding out bad police, good police, identifying officers who may be in distress," said Crawford.
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