1/ Incremental policy changes are not enough. There should be a national police academy with universal standards for policing everywhere. The training should be much longer than that it is now and should include non-violent conflict resolution techniques.

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2/ We should return to community policing, and there should be far more mental health support for policemen (they too are traumatized and live in a constant state of low-grade panic). There should also be a national registry of bad cops so they can’t just move from town to town.
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3/ But more than anything we should place the responsibility where it belongs: at the feet of politicians who for the sake of their own power have allowed so much societal despair to form, that it’s like a petrie dish out of which collective pathologies inevitably arise.
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Replying to @marwilliamson
i’m curious on you thoughts of abolition of police and prisons
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There should be a national police academy where they all fail and are then sent off to install municipal solar gardens.
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Buffalo city officials are moving to restore the pension of a city cop fired for trying to stop another officer from using a chokehold, according to reports. nypost.com/2020/06/11/buffal…
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Replying to @marwilliamson
nah we've had quite enough already from School of the Americas
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