What is the "change" everyone is waiting for? And how will it be measured?
Here's my ideas.
1. Training
more intense training and longer 'boot camps' of training Training to include de-escalation training. Non-lethal ways to arrest someone. Should require a minimum of one-year training before being put onto the streets. Every year an officer should be required to go through a month of retraining.
Police with only high school education, are required an extra year of training and education, and off fieldwork before being put on the street.
2. Mental Health)
Every 6 months a police officer must go through a psychiatric exam. Police see the worst in humanity almost every day, everyone, their peers, citizens, etc need to know that their mental health is being checked upon. If they don't pass the exam then they need to have a time off period, where they don't do field duty work, they go through counseling for 6 months. When they retake the exam a pass means they can assume full duties. A fail means they are mentally unfit for the job, now they should have some sort of package for them that continues to help them with mental health, and helping them to find other jobs. The last thing we want is a mentally deranged ex-cop who has lost everything shoved out onto the world with no fall back and a gun.
3. Accountability.)
All complaints against a police officer must be reviewed by a third party overseen on a national level. police should not investigate their own friends. DA’s also must go through audits every 6 months. All investigation and audit findings need to be public knowledge. My chicken scratch way to handle this is that every officer and DA receives an accountability score of some sort. Minor things would give lower amount of points. Major things if found true would be an automatic termination, with no severance pay. If the minor things added up to enough points that would result in automatic termination.
4. Community) police representatives must be required to have monthly meetings with their community, they should have the hard discussions, and community concerns need to have tangible plans and results to community concerns. Body cams need to be on all the times.
5. Demilitarization)
"Brotherhood" isn't a bad thing, in the sense that people seeing what police see need to have a bond with who they're working with, but their needs to be less of this we protect our brothers when they do bad things attitude from the police.
They should not basically be a government gang. You fight this by having requirements for body cam's. If an officer is caught to be falsifying information of another cop, even on minor things it's a minimum 1-year prison term, no parole. - Police are at a higher standard than citizens.
6. Pay) This is a demanding Job it should be paid as one to incentivize people to do it.
7. Bodycam footage should be reviewed daily by state agencies and made public with no edits (unless there are EXTREME) circumstances.
sorry for not clarifying.
