During an appearance at Rowley Gym in Gardena, California, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a package of police reform bills into law Sept. 30 intending to hold officers accountable for misconduct and setting restrictions on certain uses of force, despite police unions’ disapproval of the legislation. One of the bills approved, Senate Bill 2, decertifies law enforcement officers who engage in misconduct and preventing them from moving to a different law enforcement agency. Although Newsom and his colleagues considering the bills a victory, state law enforcement unions—the Los Angeles Police Protective League and the San Francisco and San Jose Police Officers Associations—spoke out against Senate Bill 2 and the other signed legislation stating they allow for decertification of officers when it comes to traffic tickets, unfounded complaints, and unsubstantiated allegations. “The biased panel established in his bill has zero authority to decertify an officer,” law enforcement officers said in a joint …