Can American policing be fixed?
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2. A special force that only investigates law enforcement officers and their wrongdoing (like GIBS in Czechia [0]) could help. Not even police can police themselves.
3. A lot more professional education for officers would be good, US officers have less training than their counterparts in other developed countries. [1]
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Inspection_of_Security...
Good cops will tend to get better insurance rates than cops who rough up their fellow citizens on video.
Too often, they don't exercise that power. There are many reasons for that, usually complicated and political.
I suppose shifting the responsibility to an insurance company could potentially change the political stakes. But I'm not sure if any insurance company wants responsibility for firing/pricing-out officers they think are bad. They'd need access to close supervision, and I don't know if the police departments would want to grant that kind of supervision from somebody who isn't even an elected body.
Policing in a violent section of Mex City, Paris, Lagos, Jburg, etc., will be similar to sections of cities in the US where violence is prevalent. More peaceful sections of the city get policed differently because the crimes committed and incidence of crimes are different.
The interesting about the Minn events is that the chokehold used was in their instruction booklet --of course that doesn't excuse the disregard for suspect's distress. The police need to be heavily trained on the difficulties and dangers of restraining an uncooperative subject (often under the influence of drugs).
According to one study over 120 people are known to have died in prone positions, as it's referred to: https://www.9news.com/article/news/investigations/prone-rest...