There is only ONE road back to a respected police force.

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64. Maybe only highly skilled and people who have proven themselves to be

moral and ethical enough not to shoot first then make excuses later types, should be assigned to handle serious armed threats to the public.

At this point the public has more to fear from cops in far too many places, than from crooks.

Start by ending the Drug War, for what should be obvious reasons.

End our foreign wars and we won't have so much hatred directed at the country that we even need to fear 'terror', though the terror mostly appears to be within.

Return to community policing, where the cops actually come from and live in the communities they police and are not an outside occupying force as they are for the most these days.

Take away all of their military weapons, their camo outfits, this is not Iraq, as one Iraq veteran said when he saw the Ferguson military invasion.

And most important, put all that money we spend on WAR into EDUCATION and OPPORTUNITY which will diminish crime and raise people out of poverty.

But handing guns to every lunatic who decides to become a cop is simply insane. And a definite threat to the public.