Police don’t have a racism problem, they have an authoritarian...

The whole thing boils down to accountability.

We all know that the Police are a brotherhood and will protect their own, and this sentiment extends up the food chain to the courts, judges, politicians, etc.

If they were accountable for their actions the same way that every other person is, then you'd see a lot of this go away very very quickly.

Lots of people like to say shite like this but the facts just don’t bear it out.

Are there bad apples? Yes.

Has police corruption improved tremendously over the past few decades? Yes, absolutely, and it’s provable .

Is anyone actually looking at the facts? Hell naw!

Are the exceedingly rare instances a-hole cops (and even some distorted cases ie. Michael Brown in Ferguson) being used for political purposes and everyone is shitting the bed over it? Absolutely.

They are authoritarian when it comes to the easy stuff. Total pussies when it comes to defending our heritage and monuments, or public property of any kind, and especially businesses destroyed by violent mobs inspired by domestic terrorists.

We need police reform, there is not question about it, and that starts with revitalizing the old ways of common defense, in which citizens were imbued with a duty to protect.

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Problem...

There is no other job in America that gives so much power to individuals with so few qualifications (outside of politicians, ironically).

There are issues with cops, as we saw during the COVID lockdown. The problem is the emotional bandwidth to handle the authority entrusted to them. Police need very real and frequent audits of their actions and psychological evals relative to their records.

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They have that.

You are asking a low paying position to take on an incredible amount of responsibility and the numbers do not bear out this national crisis of abusive cops, I'm sorry...they don't. The numbers of actual abuses of police authority would certainly be dwarfed by wrecks involving professional truck drivers, for example and probably even accidental deaths during a surgical procedure. Both of these jobs are people with huge responsibility, but we aren't burning our country down and trying to transform communities into Mogadishu over them.

The more "oversight" you layer onto police, just understand the less effective police you will have. The more rules and restrictions you place on them, understand you will have far slower response times, delayed investigations and will be recruiting from a much higher risk pool because good cops will grow disgusted at being hamstrung by bureaucrats who don't have to accept any risk themselves.

As usual with leftist ideology, it's going to take fools walking down a fool's road to see how bad their ideas are.

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The whole thing boils down to accountability. We all know that the Police are a brotherhood and will protect their own, and this sentiment extends up the food chain to the courts, judges, politicians, etc. If they were accountable for their actions the same way that every other person is, then you'd see a lot of this go away very very quickly.

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It is OUR fault, not the police. People will do whatever they need to do to get by or want to do if there are no ill side effects. We pay them squat, which means many aren't exactly high quality recruits. We hire them, provide them with very little training and what training we do provide is poor quality...and then expect them to perform at a high level. The only person they can count on is their brother policemen...just like soldiers. They should be in a position where they can depend on the people they are protecting and serving but instead we treat them like shite and then act surprised when the react in kind.

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The problem is that there is a shortage of cops

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Or a glut of crime.
Less crime equals less police, and ones you higher are smarter and can be higher paid.

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It is OUR fault, not the police. People will do whatever they need to do to get by or want to do if there are no ill side effects. We pay them squat, which means many aren't exactly high quality recruits. We hire them, provide them with very little training and what training we do provide is poor quality...and then expect them to perform at a high level. The only person they can count on is their brother policemen...just like soldiers. They should be in a position where they can depend on the people they are protecting and serving but instead we treat them like shite and then act surprised when the react in kind.

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Imagine being an officer and dealing with dirtbags constantly every day.

I can’t believe there aren’t more incidents.

This. It isn’t a race thing, it’s a power hungry thing.

The LEO field attracts a lot of LQ, power hungry pieces of shite that should never be cops but yet here we are. The only way to stop this shite is to put cops through way more deescalation training and actually hold cops accountable. The “thick blue wall” has got to be busted and hold everyone accountable that abuses their powers.

The majority of cops are good people. Part of the issue is that they deal with the worse of society so often and for so long - that they come to expect everyone is a shitty person.

Couple that with the fact that, like every profession, there are a few bad apples. Issue there is that bad apples in other professions generally aren’t in a position to end your life.