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There are 18,000 different police agencies at all levels of federal, state, county, and municipal government with the bulk of the force distributed at the munic

• mschuster91 5y ago
  Easy solution: Mandate federal standards for training, staffing and use of force. Congress could go and deal with this similarly to how the drinking age 21 was enforced - withhold federal funds for non-compliant states. Yes, this is messy as hell, but common standards for training are more important than to prevent of-age people of having a beer.
  • ansible 5y ago
    There should also be a national database for police officers to register with, maintained by the FBI (or somebody in the Justice Department). So you can't have cops that have been fired (for cause) in one jurisdiction just move somewhere else and easily get another police job.
  • finiteseries 5y ago
    In a sense, but that’s more a “how” than a what. As you’ve described re: drinking, tying it to funding is a clear, well trodden path for the feds but let’s not forget the even clearer message, motivation and inertia that was behind it in the MADD type stuff all of a few decades after the temperance movement. What policing is, and what its standards should be was the single most divisive topic in a year we were overrun by plague though. Nationwide protests. No resolution. Every particular reform (atm, under the current systems) takes years to see through and is shackled to locality, socioeconómics, different explanations, political warfare Very wicked problem, and that’s not even getting into anti federalism…