Description: Questions for the three Iowa City Police Chief finalists on topics ranging from police militarization and the war on drugs to racial profiling to slashing the police department's budget by half.
Iowa City Police Chief candidates Dustin Liston, Jason Lando, and Jeremy Logan at the public meet and greet event in Mercer Park, Iowa City on Aug. 24, 2020. Photo: ICPD Watch Policing Issues Questionnaire for the 2020 Iowa City Police Chief Finalists Contributors ICPD Watch, Hawkeye Chapter of the ACLU of Iowa, South District Neighborhood Association Leadership Committee, Iowa City Tenants Union September 2, 2020 13:23 p.m. As you might have heard , following the February 24, 2020 retirement of Chief Jody
While the finalists' resumes , the Step 3 questionnaire responses , and the socially distanced “ meet and greet ” held by the City on August 24 in Mercer Park allowed some of us to gain more insight about the candidates, by and large, their positions on many important issues remain to be unknown.
The questionnaire below aims to bridge this gap. ICPD Watch asked all of the three Police Chief finalists to answer these questions to the degree they feel compelled to answer them.