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bluescribbler

(2,547 posts) Mon Jun 1, 2020, 10:48 AM Jun 2020

we need national standards for police training.

All police departments should be rated on their compliance with those standards. Departments which fail to meet those standards must be denied certification or accreditation just as hospitals and schools can.

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we need national standards for police training. (Original Post) bluescribbler Jun 2020 OP

Not from this adminstration we don't ibegurpard Jun 2020 #1

Agreed bluescribbler Jun 2020 #5

We've been there, snowybirdie Jun 2020 #6

Not only that, the police should continue to be judge by those procedures Claustrum Jun 2020 #2

as well as a mandatory psychological evaluation prior to hire and periodically after hire Yonnie3 Jun 2020 #3

Kneeling on a neck should not even be considered pwb Jun 2020 #4

And a mandatory registry, MurrayDelph Jun 2020 #7

ibegurpard

(17,081 posts)

1. Not from this adminstration we don't

Reply to bluescribbler (Original post)

Mon Jun 1, 2020, 10:53 AM

Jun 2020

bluescribbler

(2,547 posts)

5. Agreed

Reply to ibegurpard (Reply #1)

Mon Jun 1, 2020, 11:03 AM

Jun 2020

The next President should set up an independent commission to establish those standards. There should be input from prosecutors, defense attorneys, judges and representatives of affected communities.

snowybirdie

(6,749 posts)

6. We've been there,

Reply to bluescribbler (Reply #5)

Mon Jun 1, 2020, 11:11 AM

Jun 2020

done that. It was the Kerner Commision, chaired by popular Democratic Gov. of Illinois. Instead of being a rubber stamp, it called for sweeping changes in police practices. A tough plan to reform them. Forward a few years, Gov Kerner was implicated in a federal nefarious, little understood , white collar crime and served hard time! That showed him for going against the law and order Republican party!

Claustrum

(5,060 posts)

2. Not only that, the police should continue to be judge by those procedures

Reply to bluescribbler (Original post)

Mon Jun 1, 2020, 10:54 AM

Jun 2020

Having one set of procedures for whites and another set of procedures for non-white is never acceptable. Everyone should be treated equally based on those procedures. The body cam should show arrest procedures accordingly or else they are sent to retrain or punished.

Yonnie3

(19,570 posts)

3. as well as a mandatory psychological evaluation prior to hire and periodically after hire

Reply to bluescribbler (Original post)

Mon Jun 1, 2020, 10:56 AM

Jun 2020

No evals, no funds.

pwb

(12,802 posts)

4. Kneeling on a neck should not even be considered

Reply to bluescribbler (Original post)

Mon Jun 1, 2020, 11:02 AM

Jun 2020

Holding the head would be my suggestion.

Oh yea, and letting up when someone says they cant breath.

And speaking up regardless of rank may be helpful.

MurrayDelph

(5,776 posts)

7. And a mandatory registry,

Reply to bluescribbler (Original post)

Mon Jun 1, 2020, 12:13 PM

Jun 2020

as they do for nurses and teachers (or at least did when I taught 40+ years ago), so that a bad, or questionable, cop can't just drive a few towns away to get a new badge.

And we have to look into this "Constitutional Sheriffs" bullshit, where Sheriffs consider they are the highest level of law in the land

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