posted by sportchampps
The police were defunded in 2008 and crime skyrocketed. Police have millions of interactions with people daily and almost all are without incidents. I think improvements can be made like eliminating no knock warrants, decriminalizing weed, and making police take classes yearly or every other year on the newest deescalation techniques.
I think we need to take justice reform further by improving the prison system and probation system. There are so many young people who get caught in the system because of probation that they keep in and out their whole lives for minor crimes.
We also need more police and community interactions especially in minority neighborhoods. How many children are taught to fear the police and not to “snitch”. Instead lets have more community policing where children get to know the officers on their streets and develop relationships so they are not afraid and willing to report crimes to the police.
Also if we wanna get rid of police unions I’m all for it but let’s also look at other state funded worker unions like teacher unions as well.
Your second sentence in the first paragraph is spot on. There are 10,500,000 arrests in a year; let's say 50 of them go sideways and someone dies or is injured and perhaps it should not have happened. That is still a success rate of 99.9995%. To me, that is a stellar record given the risky circumstances of so many arrests. As a whole, society should be willing to accept such a success rate in return for safety, and law and order.