The Importance of Third Party Review in American Police

"All policing is subject to the social contract. Those nine principles that Sir Robert Peel espoused many years ago in the foundation of Western policing," Kato says. "We see federal DOJ and Cal DOJ walking into organizations that have failed to do this on their own, where at least they feel like they've failed." The most extreme would have subpoena powers and actually dictate authority or a dictate discipline, he adds.