Twenty-Three People Killed by American Police in the Span of One Week

[drray23]

28. several things need to be done to reverse this

First is training. The us versus them mentality is drilled into them in the police academy. They are told to be assertive (meaning bark orders and dont listen to what the people are saying ) in order to take control. Mind you this goes for any situation often
resulting in escalation rather than peaceful resolve.
Secondly, instead of being trained by the military (that was recently reported on du ) they should look at what the british police does to defuse situations and get people in custody without killing them.

Thirdly, any officer caught in abusing citizens should be fired and prosecuted.
Firing should also be automatic if the city had to settle and pay millions because of a rogue cop.

Most of us would be fired if we made our company lose millions due to negligence on the job.

Finally even in the rare cases an officer was justified in killing somebody they should be reassigned to desk duty. There is no telling what killing somebody however justified can do to you long term and how it would affect the officer subsequently put in a tense situation.