Discussion- ending militarization of police, police brutality and gov sanctioned murder by LEO.

[nadinbrzezinski]

58. From extensive work we have done on this

1.- Get rid of a few federal programs. The Byrnes Federal grants are toxic, essential to the War on Drugs and need to go. The 1030 program.... well if DoD wants to get rid of DSLR cameras, and even coffee makers (yes they have one for a PD locally in the database), sure. Winter uniforms for SAR, absolutely. Tents for disasters why not?

I start to get a tad worried with fire arms, and definitely no MRAPs. Hummers... under certain conditions I can see it... see SAR.

2.- Civil Forfeiture programs (which are already under reforms) need to either be truly reformed or go away.

3.- Believe you me, some of the issues actually roll down from the brass. The brass is still either in denial or they don't care... of what is going on.

4.- ALL use of force incidents have to be taken out of the local DA, internal affairs and have to go to a specialized unit from the state. Issue, State police, who investigates them? I am starting to think that we actually need to have a single state police for each state. Too many chiefs, and really small departments are not really capable of getting gear like body cams.

5.- All training will not matter until every officer is forced to admit the implicit racial bias in the force.

6.- Yes, we do have a lot of racial profiling see point about the brass.

7.- Training has to de-emphasize the warrior culture that started to develop BEFORE 911, and emphasize community policing, which also needs LOTS of bodies, It is personnel intensive.

Hope this is just the beginning of a discussion and yes, you can feel free to punch holes.