DENVER — Brother Jeff's Cultural Center in Five Points was filled with community members on Saturday as people wanted to address Denver Police Chief Ron Thomas over his proposal to change the department's disciplinary policy. The push is for an education-based development model for certain low-level policy violations and would be an 'alternative to traditional discipline.'

"I think it's very unsatisfying to give someone a written or an oral reprimand a year after they have committed an infraction," said Thomas. "I think it's insufficient for the officer, and I think it’s insufficient for the community."

"I want this policy because I want a much more solution-oriented outcome for lower-level forms of discipline because I think that the time it takes to complete these cases in and of i

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