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(35,454 posts) Sun May 31, 2020, 12:50 PM May 2020

Where To Begin The Change Regarding The Police [View all]

It occurred to me that a first step in changing the police force starts with individuals who have a history of abuse complaints that were never addressed as Chauvin did as well as Pantaleo in the Garner case. Put in a 3 strikes pattern of abuse and you're out rule. This would begin to weed out racists and brutes. A start to cleaning up police forces around the country.

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Where To Begin The Change Regarding The Police [View all] Me. May 2020 OP

Except that through 2naSalit May 2020 #1

Kamala Harris has the solution; de localized prosecution of bad acting cops uponit7771 May 2020 #2

That Would Work Me. May 2020 #3

..👍🏼 uponit7771 May 2020 #7

Start with the ones with known ties to white-supremacist/RW extremist groups. backscatter712 May 2020 #4

It has to start at the highest up. They have got to enforce a strong line of unacceptable. LizBeth May 2020 #5

Robots. BannonsLiver May 2020 #6

Will never happen - Our form of gov./sociey needs thugs packman May 2020 #8

And end the militarization of the police. dware May 2020 #9

Change who they work for. Ron Green May 2020 #10

Screen out racists and sociopaths, put in whistleblower protection, implement a no-hire database for dalton99a May 2020 #11

Really A Lot Of Exceptional Ideas On This Thread Me. May 2020 #12

When a City Is Sued For An Officer's Misconduct And Must Pay a Settlement The Magistrate May 2020 #13

Take away their weapons. Seriously. hunter May 2020 #14

De-power unions, lower bloated budgets, charge more, change sentencing laws. SaschaHM May 2020 #15

Let's start by firing their bosses. Initech May 2020 #16

And, rownesheck May 2020 #17

Where to start...hmmm? My thoughts. Mystery sage May 2020 #18

Training, and demilitarizing stillcool May 2020 #19