This post follows this one in which I outlined modest steps toward reforming police behavior and police departments. In the first, I argued for commonsense restrictions on – but not abolition of – the legal doctrine of qualified immunity for individual officers. Here I urge a more rigorous process for identifying, retraining and potentially disciplining officers found to have violated the law, departmental rules or police training.
Police Reform: “Early Warning” Systems
Police Reform: “Early Warning” Systems
Police Reform: “Early Warning” Systems
This post follows this one in which I outlined modest steps toward reforming police behavior and police departments. In the first, I argued for commonsense restrictions on – but not abolition of – the legal doctrine of qualified immunity for individual officers. Here I urge a more rigorous process for identifying, retraining and potentially disciplining officers found to have violated the law, departmental rules or police training.