article: We all think there needs to be change, what should those changes be?

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https://www.vox.com/2020/6/1/21277013/police-reform-policies-systemic-racism-george-floyd

It’s this story that led the US Department of Justice under President Barack Obama to investigate police practices in Baltimore; Cleveland; New Orleans; Ferguson, Missouri; Chicago; and several other American cities, consistently finding massive problems. As the department wrote in its Baltimore report, racial disparities were “present at every stage of BPD’s enforcement actions, from the initial decision to stop individuals on Baltimore streets to searches, arrests, and uses of force” and that the disparities “erode the community trust that is critical to effective policing.”

It’s this story that has led black people to trust police at half the rate of their white counterparts.

It’s this story, too, that’s kept black communities less safe, suffering disproportionately not just from police violence but also crime that goes underpoliced. As Council on Criminal Justice senior fellow Thomas Abt previously told me, “In addition to all of these burdens that we’re placing on African-American communities in terms of aggressive policing, we’re fundamentally failing them at keeping them safe.”

It’s this story that, over the past week, has led thousands of Americans to protest in the streets against police violence and systemic racism.

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1. bmping this up... since the "defund police" debate is raging, wondering if anyone has any comments

on actual actionable reforms?