Black lives matter 10 point manifesto

[La Lioness Priyanka]

http://politicsbreaking.com/black-lives-matter-just-delivered-10-point-manifesto-want/

I was just reading somewhere on DU that it wasn't clear what the end goal of BLM was unlike other Civil Rights movements. I just wanted to post their manifesto, which seems abundantly clear and rational to me. Their goals are actionable and can both be implement and easily analyzed.

1. End "broken windows" policing, which aggressively polices minor crimes in an attempt to stop larger ones.
2. Use community oversight for misconduct rather than having the police department decide what consequences officers should face....
3. Make standards for reporting police use of deadly force.
4. Independently investigate and prosecute police misconduct.
5. Have the racial makeup of police departments reflect the communities they serve.
6. Require officers to wear body cameras.
7. Provide more training for police officers.
8. End for-profit policing practices.
9. End the police use of military equipment.
10. Implement police union contracts that hold officers accountable for misconduct.

Clear, actionable, and reasonable goals.

[B2G]

1. An excellent list. nt

[La Lioness Priyanka]

3. i love how clear, concise, and actionable this is.

[puffy socks]

2. Excellent!

Require officers to wear body cameras


I've seen too many "camera malfunctioned" lines from the cops.

they also need to add meaningful discipline and/or firing for turning them off or having them "malfunction". Any time that claim is made the camera must be inspected by an independent entity. No prudent officer leaves the station without having checked to make their fire arms are clean and functional there's no reason the same shouldn't be done to hold them accountable.

[Moostache]

7. Amen shouted to the heavens until I have no voice left!!!

I cannot say it better so I will just repeat what you said:

they also need to add meaningful discipline and/or firing for turning them off or having them "malfunction". Any time that claim is made the camera must be inspected by an independent entity. No prudent officer leaves the station without having checked to make their fire arms are clean and functional there's no reason the same shouldn't be done to hold them accountable.

Its time for good cops to take back their profession's reputation and to repudiate those who would straight-faced lie about 'malfunctions' or 'forgetting to turn on their cameras'. I worked in a laboratory environment that has to introduce new documentation standards to improve processing and compliance. Everyone was very used to lax enforcement of regulations and being able to do pretty much whatever they wanted to do, so change was hard. It was a daily battle to get people to follow the single-line out / initial and date rules when they were used to scribbling over a mistake and moving on.

For some, that change was easy and came naturally; for others, it took the threat of serious consequences up to and including possible termination to make them see the light.

Body cameras and recording devices are not an imposition on police...they are a requirement for the safety of the officer AND the citizen. Proper use and deployment has the potential to change the outcomes of some of these cases and offers the police the reassurance that if they are performing as they are trained and expected to uphold the law, that those cameras will exonerate them in every case...the cameras will remove doubt in the minds of the people feeling most targeted or oppressed and the cameras will serve as documentation of the police behavior being what all communities want - fair, impartial and in service of upholding the law.

But, like the employees I had to threaten with loss of their position, it may take some drastic measures for some to get on board...

[Ligyron]

13. This is it really and it needs to be implemented immediately and become SOP

"Its time for good cops to take back their profession's reputation and to repudiate those who would straight-faced lie about 'malfunctions' or 'forgetting to turn on their cameras'. "

"Body cameras and recording devices are not an imposition on police...they are a requirement for the safety of the officer AND the citizen."

[sheshe2]

4. "Clear, actionable, and reasonable goals."

Every last one of them. Thanks, Priyanka.

[arcane1]

5. Seems reasonable to me!

[Red Mountain]

6. I guess it falls under training.......

but I think it's very important that police emphasize deescalation as their first choice in confrontational situations where the safety of the general public is not in immediate danger.

Until this point is hammered home until it's second nature we're going to have more unnecessary killings.

[Moostache]

8. That requires serious top-down leadership and selection criteria for officer eligibility as well.

I do not disagree in the slightest, I just think we have more than a few ex-military now police who do not see the authority of a badge as NEEDING to be nice or de-escalating. There is also a significant portion of our population that agree with that view.

[cstanleytech]

12. I think that would fall under a "the police need better fucking training" clause which

sadly applies to a good percentage of police officers I am willing to bet.

[Doctor_J]

9. I don't see how number five can be implemented

if not enough black people enlist. besides that I do like the specificity

[Skittles]

14. Dallas is already over that percentage

Chief Brown has really made some progress so it angers me to see DUers trashing him

[pinboy3niner]

15. It's normally done through targeted recruiting

They don't wait for people to apply, they actively recruit in groups that need more representation.

[Igel]

22. It's worse.

If a community undergoes a racial or ethnic shift, then you have to fire people because they are the wrong race or ethnicity and hire replacements by percentage population.

Somebody quits, you tell applicants, "Sorry, we can only hire a white person, the force is already 45% black and the community's 40% black." It works both ways. Was it Dallas that has black over-representation?

Of course, we can always just define "community" properly. A Dallas police force, but make police patrols race-based by the neighborhood. Or we can just gerrymander.

Don't know what to do about Latinos. They're classified as either black or white for a lot of purposes, but by ethnicity for others. "Sorry, Jose, we can't hire you. We need a white-classified Latino to fill this slot."

I wonder how much of that would pass Constitutional muster. Now we don't like quotas, now we demand quotas.

[brer cat]

10. Nothing complicated there

and I don't see anything controversial. Pretty much common sense solutions.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

18. Yup

[Igel]

23. You know what ended the Orlando standoff?

And got the guy as he was going around killing more people?

They tried to blow a hole in the wall, but that didn't work. They rammed a BearCat through the wall.

That's a "militarized" vehicle.

Ban big scary thing because it looks big and scary.

[cstanleytech]

11. Most of the list makes sense though I see some potential issues

with #5 and #9.

[Ken Burch]

16. Thanks for posting that. I fully support it.

As does the candidate I supported in the primaries. As do all people of good will, I hope.

[ismnotwasm]

17. Point by point an excellent set of goals.

Nothing to argue here, completely reasonable and positive for everyone.

[Bluenorthwest]

19. These are all things that should already be the case, none of this should even be

in the least bit controversial.

[snot]

20. I'd also ask for testing of police applicants for bias.

[HipChick]

21. It's clear to me...some folks are wilfully ignorant..