But what ends up happening is that this puts police officers at a serious information asymmetry disadvantage from random encounters. That's the root cause of th

But what ends up happening is that this puts police officers at a serious information asymmetry disadvantage from random encounters. That's the root cause of the violence. There was a recent Frontline, "Policing the Police" about Newark. The TL;DR was "We need more 'intelligence'" which had an ominous, Big Brother tone but in the face of politically charged deaths, which is worse? I just hope your last paragraph is wrong. This especially because the reaction to it will probably make things worse. But I have to say it looks insightful. All this being said, Las Vegas has made measurable progress: http://qz.com/565011/how-one-of-the-largest-police-forces-in-america-stopped-shooting-people/ http://qz.com/565011/how-one-of-the-largest-police-forces-in...