Tag: police reform

A critical legal battle unfolds as Atlanta seeks to overturn a ruling allowing nonresidents to participate in a controversial referendum on a police training center.

To the surprise of no one but naive liberal backers of the police, expensive reforms to law enforcement have done nothing to curb the killings.

Consistent with the UN sustainable development goals, police sustainability should also be concerned with providing a safe and secure workplace.

Floyd’s death in Minneapolis on May 25, 2020, set off a nationwide uprising and global movement calling for an end to racism and for the defense of Black lives.

Mayors and city councils nationwide have also pushed reforms emphasizing accountability and transparency, with many working to create independent oversight commissions.

"This could be the beginning of changing the entire way that policing is done on the front end. Then we can let the bad cops retire on the back end.”

The focus on reforms like improved training doesn’t solve racially biased policing. That’s because of the nature of policing itself.

Just before he left, the departing attorney-general adopted a policy to limit the Justice Department’s ability to oversee abusive police departments.

Conservatives’ zeal for reining in government turns into something else when marginalized groups, or groups they disdain suffer under the only form of “big government” conservatives don’t seem to mind.

The most effective reforms are the ones that build community trust between citizens and the police that serve them.