Oneonta’s review board gets hung up on ‘use of force’ language – All Otsego

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Oneonta's review board
gets hung up
on 'use of force' language

By KEVIN LIMITI • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com

ONEONTA — Members of the Community Advisory Board Review Council, which includes mayoral candidates Mark Drnek and Len Carson, discussed some of the language pertaining to the Community Advisory Board document on "best practices" for the Oneonta Police Department.

However, ultimately it was decided there would need to be another meeting in two weeks to further discuss what is being put in the final document.

The delay means the city will miss the self-imposed deadline for acting on the plan.

Most of the issues the CAB had with the document as it stands now were highly semantical including replacing the words "may" with "shall" when referring to certain practices.

The biggest issue discussed was the language about "use of force" procedures, which is a broad category that includes verbal commands as well as use of potentially deadly force.

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