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mk  ·  3766 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Counter-Terrorism Officials Helped Track Black Lives Matter Protesters

I don't know. We are at a place where the relationship between the police and the communities they serve is a very unhealthy one. This is the problem that needs to be addressed first.

Many professions require continuing education in order to maintain a license. Perhaps police should be required to perform a number of 'community engagement' hours every year to remain employable. For example, this could be serving a soup kitchen, reading to kids at a local library, helping with a community fair or festival, or coaching a local youth team. This isn't a fix, but it could be a start.

Rules and 'sensitivity training' are not going to fix the us vs. them mentality that has poisoned the police/community relationship. It's not enough to prevent police from doing harm to a community, you need to create the conditions where they will not be willing to.