Various community groups have criticized police brutality. These groups often stress the need for oversight by independent citizen review boards and other methods of ensuring accountability for police action.
Internal police reviews and investigations are not reliable. They encourage misconduct and brutality by giving police protection through their peers. The "blue wall of silence" has become an endemic in the United States.
This petition asks that the Obama administration respond to, or champion efforts for a system of external, third party reviews of police misconduct and brutality.