Could Police brutality be solved with money?

I think if these protests resulted in law enforcement pay raises, people would lose their mind.

Cops are paid too much already

It won't make much of a difference. Most people will never work a job where they have a chance of being killed everyday. Also, no one wants to deal with the the dregs of society day in and day out.

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Don’t need to raise taxes, just stop overpaying school teachers

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quality troll!

Even if the salary started at $100k, I’m not taking that job no matter how desperate I was. Police across the country now have a target painted on their backs. We’ve seen multiple instances of them
being shot, killed, and put in critical care over the last few nights all in the name of #justice

Look up David Dorn. Executed Sunday night in Las Vegas so rioters could get to some TVs. He’s an African American, does his black life not matter?

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Even if it resulted in major law enforcement reform, including standards for joining the force and being retained by the force AND a no-nonsense discipline policy that leads to termination?

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I'd be for it.

Apparently, all it really takes is one racist, or perceived racist, to cause the entire country to have a massive melt down that includes, beating the shite out of other races, cops, killings, burning businesses to the ground, and stealing.

Exactly how are we ever going to prevent one racist, or perceived racist from becoming a cop and perhaps going overboard, because I just don't see it as being humanly possible. I mean, I think we can tone down the paramilitary shite within the police forces, train better, and pay better, but I just don't think that we hold the secret to fixing that which ails man and keep it out of the various police forces across this country to prevent this from EVER happening again and the people who want to loot and riot, and be violent from doing so when they do something fricked up again.

I’m just trying to be a realist here. I don't see it as humanly posssible.

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Apparently, all it really takes is one racist, or perceived racist, to cause the entire country to have a massive melt down that includes, beating the shite out of other races, cops, killings, burning businesses to the ground, and stealing.

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These protests/riots have been about much more than just 1 death.

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Exactly how are we ever going to prevent one racist, or perceived racist from becoming a cop and perhaps going overboard

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I think it has to start with the cops we currently have. They have to weed out the ones that they know have potential to lose control.

I don’t think it would help much. Salary is just one part of a policeman’s compensation. Add in overtime, special assignments like private security, etc and the number is much higher.

What needs to increase is accountability. If almost every person walk around with a phone in their pocket, why don’t all police departments have body cams? The police unions are happy to cover for and protect the “bad” police. Investigations by Internal Affairs are a joke.

Get rid of thin blue line paraphernalia, tactical vests, Punisher stickers on gear, and work to eliminate the “us vs them” attitude that many officers seem to have. This isn’t Itaq; anyone who isn’t wearing the same uniform as you is not an enemy. Basically take away the Sovereign Citizen attitude that many police exhibit.