Independent civilian board needed to review complaints against police officers

Saturday, April 26, 2008 | 10:00 a.m. CDT; updated 8:21 a.m. CDT, Tuesday, July 22, 2008

I learned about DWB about 10 years ago, when I was managing editor of the Missourian. Our sports editor then was African American. He drove a nice car. In conversation in the newsroom one day, he recounted how he had been stopped more than once by Columbia police. Never arrested; never even a ticket.

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