released a proposal they said would increase departmental standards for deescalating potentially violent encounters between officers and the public, among other changes. But unions representing rank-and-file officers in Los Angeles and across the state and the California Police Chiefs Assn. Weber said in her statement that she did not receive substantive proposals from law enforcement groups indicating changes to the bill they would find acceptable.
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The bill now also wouldn’t take effect until 2020, giving departments time to update their policies and allowing officers to be trained for the new standard. “The intention of the bill is to help save lives and reduce police shootings,” Bibring said. Bibring said the intent of advocates was never to send more police to prison, and the changes to the bill reflect that. If those provisions are violated, a department would be able to discipline an officer and departments could face civil lawsuits, said Peter Bibring, director of police practices at the American Civil Liberties Union of California, which is a principal backer of the bill.
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