Philadelphia Inquirer's Essay In The Philadelphia Police Reform

I found this essay In the Philadelphia Inquirer, in the opinion section page A14. The thesis of this essay is the Philadelphia Police Advisory Commission, feels it is being undermined by house bill one thousand five hundred and thirty eight. The Philadelphia Police Advisory Commission feels that they are being closed out or ignored because the bill basically takes away the purpose for the police advisory even existing. Which is to improve the relationship between police and citizens of their city, by providing independent objective reviews of police actions and policies. ("Pa. Bill Undermines Attempts at Police Reform.") The Philadelphia Police Advisory Commission believes that if they provide this information that it builds mutual accountability, trust and collaboration. House bill one thousand five hundred and thirty eight states that it should cover the tracks of any police officer that may have fired a gun or used wrongful force while on duty unless they are being criminally charged. Police officers would pretty much have free reign to do whatever they wanted to do.
The essay also has facts in the writing but it is mostly opinion of the writer who strongly disagrees with the house bill the House of Representatives passed. Kelvyn along with the rest of the Philadelphia Police Advisory Commission argue that house bill one thousand five hundred and thirty eight conflicts with the terms of Philadelphia Executive Order 7-1, which provides that completed investigations be files under the names of the officers and be publicly available. ("Pa. Bill Undermines Attempts at Police Reform.") The author of this essay uses some facts along with person narration. He uses “we” a lot in the essay which me means Kelvin’s speaking from his own words. Kelvyn is the executive director of the Police Advisory Commission, so he is speaking from them as a