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The best way to get better cops: Putting multiple cameras on every cop & car, and prosecutors who make it clear they side with the people over the police. Serio
by unabridged 11y ago
The best way to get better cops:
Putting multiple cameras on every cop & car, and prosecutors who make it clear they side with the people over the police. Seriously punish any amount of power tripping or harassment of citizens.
It may take a few years, but the people who sign up for police academy will be different. Being a police officer will no longer be attractive to those who want to wield power.
- krapp 11y agoProsecutors shouldn't side with "the people" over the police - the police are the people. They should side with the evidence and the rule of law.
- dragonwriter 11y agoThe policy-actionable bits of that (cameras, particularly) may help. But training affects expectations and behavior, both directly and individually and more broadly by shaping institutional culture. So, training reforms of the type discussed in the article are, IMO, part of the solution.