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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forumswe need national standards for police training.
All police departments should be rated on their compliance with those standards. Departments which fail to meet those standards must be denied certification or accreditation just as hospitals and schools can.
ibegurpard
(16,685 posts)bluescribbler
(2,117 posts)The next President should set up an independent commission to establish those standards. There should be input from prosecutors, defense attorneys, judges and representatives of affected communities.
snowybirdie
(5,228 posts)done that. It was the Kerner Commision, chaired by popular Democratic Gov. of Illinois. Instead of being a rubber stamp, it called for sweeping changes in police practices. A tough plan to reform them. Forward a few years, Gov Kerner was implicated in a federal nefarious, little understood , white collar crime and served hard time! That showed him for going against the law and order Republican party!
Claustrum
(4,845 posts)Having one set of procedures for whites and another set of procedures for non-white is never acceptable. Everyone should be treated equally based on those procedures. The body cam should show arrest procedures accordingly or else they are sent to retrain or punished.
Yonnie3
(17,442 posts)No evals, no funds.
pwb
(11,275 posts)Holding the head would be my suggestion.
Oh yea, and letting up when someone says they cant breath.
And speaking up regardless of rank may be helpful.
MurrayDelph
(5,299 posts)as they do for nurses and teachers (or at least did when I taught 40+ years ago), so that a bad, or questionable, cop can't just drive a few towns away to get a new badge.
And we have to look into this "Constitutional Sheriffs" bullshit, where Sheriffs consider they are the highest level of law in the land