What does actual police reform look like?

[Payday23]

Here are a few recent articles attempting to tackle the question...

How to reform American police, according to experts
Opinion | There Is a Playbook for Police Reform
Police Reform: What Could It Look Like?




What type of reform would you like to see?

Abolish the police. Won't happen so:

Ban all ability for police unions to donate to local DAs and judges.

Set up a database required by the feds for departments of every death in police custody. Any failure to comply, no funding

Every investigation into a police shooting is conducted by a 3rd party group non police review board with the power to bring charges. Take the power away from DAs to sweep under the rug.

All police related body cams and video are released at the conclusion of all investigations after 30 days


Any DA or judge who suppresses evidence or derelict of their duty is brought up on obstruction of justice

Remove all militarization of the police

End no knock warrants

End qualified immunity

Apply accomplice laws to police wrt to murder charges

Any cop found guilty of misconduct or has 3 credible complaints are banned from any police job for life and loss of pensions upon termination

Police unions pay for settlements and lose certification if too many members are convicted.

The DA, judges and unions are the biggest issues of fostering police misconduct


And plenty more I can't think of right now.

 

[Payday23]

Is suppose you start by asking, what % of these police forces are bad apples?

The entire concept of police creates the bad apples

 

[Secure Da Bag]

Defund the police is the same as defund ice. All it is is replace the police with a different structure. I dunno why everyone hasn't gotten that yet.

 

[Yinny]

Civilian board or inclusion review for accusations of misconduct, every death


I haven’t fleshed out my thoughts but I’ll return.

 

[无名的]

Probably won't happen in my life, but you have to end the drug war. Also, I have worked with local cops and based on that experience, I would guess there are a large number of officers who gravitate to the job not to protect and serve, but the appeal of power. There is a borderline sociopathic desire to control others. There should be better psychological screening to weed out as many of these people as possible. As the federal government, I would be looking at a database of all complaints and correlating that to psychological tests, then using machine learning to predict potential for negative outcomes for potential officers.

 

[GodinDaFlesh]

A good idea would be requiring police officers to have a bachelors degree. They're less likely to use force and more likely to use outside-the-box thinking on the job.

 

[Pressure]

 

[Baka's Weird Case]

they also has the DEA doing surveillance
LEOPOLD DEA Memo George Floyd Protests Surveillance

 

[FAH1223]

 

[CrimsonTider]

i'm just so fed up with these police unions that i'm willing for public unions to be illegal in america just so those fukkers can't have the protections of a union.

can’t compare police unions to other unions in this country

even teacher unions which is labor vs the government does not protect members that do wrong and illegal acts and sacrifice goodwill and public relations at every step

 

[hashmander]

can’t compare police unions to other unions in this country

even teacher unions which is labor vs the government does not protect members that do wrong and illegal acts and sacrifice goodwill and public relations at every step

i know they don't compare to other public unions. but police unions aren't going anywhere or even being brought under control unless the baby is also going out with the bathwater.

 

[ColdSlither]

No more qualified immunity. The police unions need to be busted. I'm saying that as someone who is pro union. Civilian review boards. They also need to be hit where it hurts the most. Their pockets. The police need to be defunded, and those resources dispersed for more useful things. That doesn't mean they aren't funded though. With that they still need to be threatened of loosing whatever funding they receive. That civilian review bard needs to review the police departments quarterly, with the major review at the end of the year. Cops should only have X amount of complaints. The head of the department needs to review those officers, and anyone over that X amount needs to be fired. The community review board will review if that is being done. If it's not being done, not only will people be fired, but funds will be slashed.

 

[FAH1223]

 

[FAH1223]

 

[Serious]

A good idea would be requiring police officers to have a bachelors degree. They're less likely to use force and more likely to use outside-the-box thinking on the job.

That's like saying, because someone has a bachelors's degree that they're automatically empathic or unbiased.

And a lot of police departments in major cities already require police to have like 60 units of college credit.