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I'd like to see officer body/car cam footage being publicly accessible. Beyond this, I'd like to see a hard requirement that if a batton or firearm is unholste
by tracker1 6y ago
I'd like to see officer body/car cam footage being publicly accessible. Beyond this, I'd like to see a hard requirement that if a batton or firearm is unholstered that body cam must be on, a single offence may be fireable, and a second in a ~5yr period is automatic firing.
Any civilian death by the hands of police or in police custody not captured on body cam should have an automatic 2+ week suspension, grounds for firing, and require trial (not just a pass via grand jury) for at least manslaughter. That doesn't mean they will always be convicted, but methods need to be put into place that allow for absolute limits to be in place.
Those would be a good start... civilian access to footage means footage needs to be taken... from there, largely, citizen groups can provide additional pressure.
Beyond this, I'd like to see civilian volunteers to try to pair each officer with a trained volunteer at least 2 shifts per week per officer (armed). Along with ongoing interaction training.
Beyond all of the above, reduction in military weapons, tactics and hand-me-downs. SWAT is/was supposed to mean "SPECIAL Weapons And Tactics" as in, not the norm... and rarely to be used.
- Rumperuu 6y agoRegarding your fourth line about pairing officers with volunteers, this happens in (some/all?) UK constabularies, for example: https://www.lancashire.police.uk/ridealong https://www.lancashire.police.uk/ridealong On a related note, we also have volunteer Independent Monitoring Boards for prisons: https://www.gov.uk/volunteer-to-check-standards-in-prison https://www.gov.uk/volunteer-to-check-standards-in-prison And voluntary magistrates' courts which try all cases first (although they pass serious ones on to the Crown Court): https://www.gov.uk/become-magistrate https://www.gov.uk/become-magistrate And Patient Participation Groups for all GP practices: https://www.napp.org.uk/ppgintro.html https://www.napp.org.uk/ppgintro.html I don't know if any of these are also the case in the US, and the UK definitely has problems of its own, but it does seem to be leaps and bounds ahead in terms of citizen oversight and institutional transparency.