The role of police needs to be redefined

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6. In other countries, police is held at a much higher standard

This police problem that we have are both cultural (gun culture) and systemic (judicial branch doesn't examine/punish each incidents fairly and bad training). In other countries, the police would have to write a detailed report of each actions that led to their escalated response and each bullets they fire would have to be fully explained and examined by high-up/court.

Every time I hear a blanket "he resists arrest" as an excuse, it infuriates me because police in other countries de-escalates the situations, but our police seems to escalates the situation because they "feel" like "their lives are in danger". This is because we have a crazy gun culture that lets everyone owns whatever guns they please without much of a check. Police is taught to assume their lives are in huge danger when they are on duty. Of course there is racism involved that some police choose to escalate the situation toward some race (black and brown). But they are using the excuse of level of danger to justify their racism.

We need to hold them accountable and examine/punish each case more closely. When they know they need to be held accountable and explain/justify each action in detail, they wouldn't/couldn't escalate the situation unless it is needed.