I saw "House of Cards" yesterday where in one episode an officer randomly shot a gun at a fleeing bystander and it nearly cost him his badge...
And I got to thinking, we want anyone acting in a police capacity to be well trained.
This does not solve the problem that there seems to exist the feeling that they are 'a separate class', and also the default desire to please authority that the majority of society has has allowed officers who have clearly committed egregious abuses to get away with it because a jury won't hold them to account.
Step 2 involves fixing State Law Enforcement and Prosecutors....
But non violent revolution is not going to be easy, perhaps not even possible until law enforcement feels it is PART of the citizenry, rather than opposed to it - And I'm sorry....the blue wall of silence against fellow police, as well as the fact that the officers who crushed occupy as coordinated by the DHS proved that this is not the case.
All efforts of reform of this seem to fail....so I advocated simply dissolving professional police departments.
Random selection ala Jury won't cut it, even if it is only for beat patrol officers leaving core professional teams intact....BUT
We already have citizen soldiers, ala the National Guard. They're both military and 'us'.....so why not do this with the police? They're only police 3 days a week and paid as much as national guard even though they're controlled by governors ala Militia?
It's not perfect, but its better than what we have now. A LOT better.
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