01-15-2021, 02:52 PM
(01-15-2021, 02:41 PM)Au165 Wrote: The issue is training isn't fixing the bad people that are there, which isn't a majority by any means but it's enough. Self-monitoring and policing does not work and that is the system that needs to be fixed. Licensing to be a police officer should occur at the state levels. These boards then also handle all investigations of complaints against officers with the ability to suspend or revoke licenses. Those boards then need to file all infractions into a national database that follows an officer to other states and is reviewed before being licensed to be an officer in the new state. When sued, the individual officers who violated the law should be subject to paying out of their own pension the damages with the department/city only being brought in when the individual officer's pension does not sufficiently satisfy the damages.
In my mind, it's an accountability issue and by removing the ability for relationships to cover the misdeeds and the accountability being personally damaging, you will see less of an interest to escalate things beyond reason. Some officers won't like it, and that probably tells you all you need to know about them, but as many people like to say "if you got nothing to hide then you have nothing to worry about".
I agree with all of this. More training, requiring licenses to work as an officer with periodic retesting/evaluations, independent oversight committees that handle the licensing etc.
