Philadelphia City Council Council in the Media, 21 Sep 2017

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From YouTube: Council members Clarke and Jones on NBC 10 discussing funding for the Police Advisory Commission

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Council President Darrell L. Clarke and Councilman Curtis Jones, Jr. (4th District) spoke to NBC 10 about their legislative effort to strengthen the Philadelphia Police Advisory Commission.

Read more about the legislation:
http://phlcouncil.com/clarke-jones-strengthen-police-advisory-commission/

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The head of Philadelphia City Council, is pushing for changes to a police oversight board. Looking for a better relationship between police and the community council, president Darrell Clark and Councilman Curtiss Jones shared their ideas with NBC 10:00. Today they want to revamp the police advisory commission aiming to get complaints handled faster and also give it investigatory powers. We.

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Got to figure out a way to fix this. We have a great city, you know we're not even remotely close to st. Louis or some of the other troubling activity. That's happened in other cities, but we can do better. They.

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Also want to guarantee funding for the Commission and they're planning to take a referendum to City voters. Philadelphia closed.