community oversight
Public accountability mechanism
Community oversight is the practice of giving citizens formal authority to monitor and review the actions of public institutions, especially police departments.
Oversight boards or committees examine complaints, investigate misconduct, and recommend policy changes.
The term implies accountability flowing from institutions back to the people they serve: The city established community oversight of its police force after years of complaints.
- watchdogGuard or monitor
- accountabilityObligation for one's actions
- police accountabilityScrutiny of law enforcement conduct
- transparencyState of being see-through
- citizensMembers of a nation
board · review · police · civilian · monitoring · public · public comment · scrutiny · governance · checks · balances · checks and balances · elected · hearings · town hall · budget hearing · whistleblower · audit
- police oversightinternal affairs, inspector general, independent review, misconduct investigation, federal investigation
- police reformpolice brutality, police misconduct, body cameras, qualified immunity, police accountability
community oversightinternal affairs
Officers investigating officers
self-policing · self-regulation · internal audit · peer review · self-governance
community oversightsecrecy
Practice of hiding information
opacity · information blackout · lack of accountability · unaccountability
community, oversight, commune, communal, communion, communist, communism, communicate, communication