Columbus, OH: police pepper spray a double amputee, then *disconnect and take his prosthetic legs*

[quakerboy]

22. Building a new system would take no longer

And be easier to do.

People have been trying to do those things for years. The police unions have not allowed them to happen. Whenever a officer is fired for doing things wrong.. they are soon reinstituted, with back pay, and usually end up better off than they started. And increasing the qualifications for being a police officer would require either the complete restart i find myself in favor of, or a many many year process where we slowly let old officers retire and replace them with better qualified candidates, during which time the old officers will fully outnumber and indoctrinate the new ones thus making the whole process pointless

The system we have is not capable of reform at the level needed. The culture of it is rotten through and through. This needs a full transplant, not some minor cosmetic makeover.