http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_policing
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Yes! More of this. More of this would DEFINITELY be of great help, along with the other things I mentioned.
The national guard would actually be the ones mainly utilizing their money to stop large-scale riots, also included in taxes.
A city police force will always have SWAT teams and reserves for buying new squad cars. They will not go broke I promise you.
Also reminder that these expensive programs and screenings (which in actuality aren't going to cut a hole in a police budget) are your idea specifically, not mine.
(1st line) Fair enough, but y'know, taxpayer money. Not exactly ideal.
(2nd line) Yeah it's my idea, I'm not a genius or expert in the police force by any stretch of the imagination, just the fact that I can come up with 3 different nonviolent ways to potentially reduce the number of tribal cops and hence the number of incidents definitely does say something about the current state of events.
kind of disturbing how things within almost immediate reach such as more cars is prioritized over teaching cops to be less tribal, instead of actually firing and imprisoning prejudiced cops.
That would be ideal but then it'd look even worse when they kill another unarmed civilian despite these systems being miraculously put in place with just a few meetings or gatherings.
No worker needs a specialized program on how to do their job right outside of basic training.
Once again, it's no responsibility of civilians to ask cops how to treat them.
(1st line) Well, like I said, I don't know why there aren't more preventative programs out there, but I know that cop cars are important for how they go about doing their business. Also, you can't arrest someone just for being tribal, though they defeinitely can be fired or not hired in the first place because of it.
(2nd line) I don't know, if the mass media doesn't sensationalize it like they always do then it wouldn't make them look worse I don't think. Mistakes happen, people fall through the cracks, people lie and manipulate, there are some pretty forgeted up people and I wouldn't be surprised at all if there were psychopaths on the police force. No amount of preventative measures are going to help with that unfortunately. Of course it's a tragedy when someones life is cut short, but there's only so much you can do to prevent it.
(3rd line) I disagree, some people clearly can't do their jobs well enough and it puts peoples lives in danger. If you're trying to say that it
shouldn't be necessary then I agree, but unfortunately that's not something that can be realized. If you have enough power to gun down at least 1 person whenever you so desired you need to know exactly when to use that power and exactly when not to. And you're right, it's not our direct responsibility, but clearly the police force isn't doing it well enough on their own. This country is driven by the people, and if the people see that something's wrong that's not going to fix itself then I would say action definitely is needed, but in this scenario, not violent action.
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