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I can think of a few things:

• Implement a more complete review of police with chronic complaints to try to weed out the bad apples before something like this happens.
• Take the decision of charging/not charging police out of the hands of the DA in the case of police brutality. It should be put in the hands of an independent board.
• Implement completely anonymous whistleblower systems and strengthen whistleblower protection for individual officers. I continue to believe that there are a lot of officers who hate these bad apples but feel powerless to stop it without ostracizing themselves from their colleagues.

A major problem with a lot of these are that they need to be implemented locally. It would be more helpful to have independent federal oversight of some of these things, but as the police powers are generally state/local, trying to implement a federal police excessive force oversight capability might be questionable from a Constitutional standpoint...

The only way I could enlighten you would be to appear on FoxNews.  That's the only way you wouldn't immediately dismiss anything I offered.

So trust in 50 different mayors of 50 different cities with 50 different makeups would be better than, you know, a national leader doing the right thing?

The police unions. The city politicians and districts attorney that rely on the political support of the police unions to keep their jobs.

How should a Democratic leader get 100 million people to become emapthetic?

Why are you utterly incapable of role-reversing this.  If time after time, unarmed white men were murdered by those tasked to serve an protect and nothing came of it?? 

I admit it IS hard to fathom BECAUSE IT WOULD NEVER HAPPEN A 2ND TIME.  It would get dealt with and fixed.  This just happens every so often.  Then there's protests and riots.  Then to goes back to how it was.  Then it happens again.

Break the cycle.  Is militarizing the police forces of our cities making it better?  No?  Then stop doing that. 


When you or I see a police officer, it's mostly inane, but it's a plus.  Someone to defend the law, someone who would help us out, someone in public service.  We might be moved to just shake their hand or pay for their meal.  Usually not, but the thought occurs to us.  Maybe thank him for his service or something.  But we also support the officer in our fantasyland ideas, don't we?  Like if something crazy happened and there was a dangerous situation, we'd have that cop's back.  We'd be his support and he could rely on us to help.

Let's flip that around, based on life experience, if we were a minority.
You now see that cop, and he's already scoping you out.  Even though you'd have his back if something dangerous went down, you don't see someone serving and protecting you.  You're on is radar from the moment he saw you.  You look at his gun.  You look to see if he has a partner nearby.  You have to purposely look non-threatening.  Yes, you have to act a certain way, because your true self just might look guilty.  You have to be careful, though, because if you overcompensate, you'll seem odd and he'll approach you.  He'll start asking questions and even though you're just a normal, boring person, he'll find you really interesting.  You'll be really stressed and freaking out inside, but try to keep calm.  But what he's doing is wrong.  Yes, you may be able to just get through this interaction, no big deal, but what the officer is doing is wrong, but if you voice this, the worse than will happen isn't an arrest, it's your life. 


I type all this in vain, because a few of you will read it and scoff.  You'll dismiss it as malarkey and THAT is the problem.  It's reality for millions of people.  THAT is the thing that no mayor or governor or president can change.  Some of your inability or unwillingness to read the above and not immediately dismiss it. 

still no ideas or suggestions just vague broad strokes of whats wrong