This all happened in the past year as a direct result of the protests against police violence (as @ClutchLinkey and @anon68324125’s links indicate). Again, it’s no panacea, but it’s a massive move in the right direction.
Iirc, the original intent was to take that discretion away from the police, where bad deeds often get buried in internal affairs and special commission fuckery. But yeah, anything that treats cops as anything other than more responsible than the average citizen and allows cronyist back-outs is a problem.
