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49. Not only do they not care about the Constitution, but most of them

have virtually no knowledge of it.

The unfortunate reality is that most Americans don't know anything about the Constitution, and those who become cops, especially in areas like St. Louis County and Ferguson, Missouri, are not necessarily the most educated of people.

They also receive very little (if any) training about the constitutional rights of the citizens they will be policing, and besides, the cop culture generally is more concerned with power and control than with citizens' rights.

They don't really know what our rights are, and even if they did, they wouldn't care.

That is why they must be subjected to rigorous civilian oversight, and why they must be held accountable for abusing their authority.

But such oversight and accountability do not appear out of nowhere. They exist only where citizens' fight for them and remain ever vigilant to maintain them.

Michael Bell, a retired Air Force lieutenant colonel, spearheaded a drive for such a civilian review board in Wisconsin, after the police murdered his 21-year-old son. We need to fight for such review boards everywhere.

Here is Bell's story:

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/08/what-i-did-after-police-killed-my-son-110038.html

What I Did After Police Killed My Son: Ten years later, we in Wisconsin passed the nation’s first law calling for outside reviews.