Redesign police departments with separation of roles and responsibilities. In most any other organization, especially ones where there aren’t enough qualified

Redesign police departments with separation of roles and responsibilities. In most any other organization, especially ones where there aren’t enough qualified workers, you don’t have one main role where the entry level people and under performers are all doing the same work as seasoned veterans. You separate out roles, and entry level people do work that requires minimal responsibility and can inflict minimal damage. You have a swat team, and they get called in when needed, but they don’t get to decide when to jump into action, someone else decides that, and the swat team doesn’t drive around looking for things to get involved in. There’s no reason the shooters and the deciders need to be the same person. Is there any reason a cop writing a traffic citation: * Needs a gun? * Needs to approach another car on foot? * Needs to exit his own car at all? What if there was a role for traffic cop, which is entry level, unarmed, where the cop never exits their own vehicle, and where the only job is to write a citation, but _not_ also to run warrants and try to search the citizen’s car for illegal items? If you had that role, the traffic cop isn’t on edge, worried he might get shot in the face for pulling over a guy with warrants. The guy with warrants doesn’t need to run, he just gets his citation and moves on. Eventually technology will help enable this, say, once we have remote control drone cars to issue traffic citations. Sure, there are tons of details to sort out, like a reliable system to identify drivers independent of the physical car (so there’s no person-to-person interaction required to write a ticket), but I suspect this is an area where the motives are so misaligned that technology will have to show up which forces these kinds of forward progress. The same way people fought for women’s rights for a long time, then the pill shows up and advances things forward by an order or magnitude.