#BlackLivesMatter: Activists come up with a plan to end police killings. Here it is.

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37. Good article by a former NYC cop, Frank Serpico.

With good solutions;

1. Strengthen the selection process and psychological screening process for police recruits. Police departments are simply a microcosm of the greater society. If your screening standards encourage corrupt and forceful tendencies, you will end up with a larger concentration of these types of individuals;

2. Provide ongoing, examples-based training and simulations. Not only telling but showing police officers how they are expected to behave and react is critical;

3. Require community involvement from police officers so they know the districts and the individuals they are policing. This will encourage empathy and understanding;

4. Enforce the laws against everyone, including police officers. When police officers do wrong, use those individuals as examples of what not to do – so that others know that this behavior will not be tolerated. And tell the police unions and detective endowment associations they need to keep their noses out of the justice system;

(2 more on last page of a well thought-out presentation)

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/10/the-police-are-still-out-of-control-112160.html