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snowybirdie

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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!

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we need national standards for police training. [View all] 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