On Abolishing or Defunding Police Departments

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29. You know, I really hate to follow his lead.

But maybe the solution is to fire the entire police department, like Reagan wrongly did for the Air Traffic Controllers. It would take planning, but firing all officers and rehiring only after psychological profiling is done may work. There would be resentment from the officers, but politicians would need to drive home a consistent message that being throughlessly violent with citizens is a thing of the past and if done now, will get them fired, without question after an investigation show them at fault.

My position on police officers is that they should have good salaries and benefits and certainly have state of the art protective equipment, but the message and the reality that their job is to calmly deal with citizens should be drilled in their heads daily, as should the message that if they violate that tenant, even if they are just covering up the actions of one officer, they will be thoroughly investigated and if found at fault, immediately fired, with why going into their personal record to make getting a cop job somewhere else difficult.