Police Brutality Bonds: How Wall Street Profits from Police Violence

What's the solution? If the state can't afford $200 million, and it can't raise taxes without legislature or voters, it has to either (a) borrow $200 million or (b) cut spending for something else by $200 million.

If you borrow $200 million, whoever's lending you $200 million will want some interest. If you make some sort of law that you can't charge interest for money you loan to states to make these payments, nobody will want to lend money to states in this situation.

This should just link to the pdf directly.

Is fear a major reason for violent police actions?

If I was repeatedly afraid someone might shoot, or I'd come to expect this, I'm sure I would begin to lash out irrationally

I'm not remotely defending anything, and as I say, I don't understand

In almost all the countries I've lived in people are simply not allowed to carry weapons, and so similarly police are equally 'unweaponized'

So again, apologies, but wanted to express the thought:

The root cause of the violence is maybe the fear

And _a_ root cause of that is maybe the prevalence of weapons creating a _potential_ for violence

If I were to guess (from my complete lack of experience and evidence based on the media!! So my guess is fairly invalid), but still, my guess is that this fear undercurrent would also destroy society, not just police relations; it would also lead to pockets with cycles of poverty and brokenness

Again apologies for making suggestions in a place where I don't have experience to comment. But let me still ask: is this suggestion reasonable, or even helpful?