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>So how to change all this? Organizations have surely assembled demands for police departments. Here, I offer a list of my own, for policy experts to consider:
>Extend police academies to include months of cultural awareness and sensitivity training that also includes how not to use lethal force.
>Police officers should all be tested for any implicit bias they carry, with established thresholds of acceptance and rejection from the police academy. We all carry bias. But most of us do not hold the breathing lives of others in our hands when influenced by it.
>During protests, protect property and lives. If you attack nonviolent protesters you are being un-American. And you wouldn’t need curfews if police arrested looters and not protesters.
>If fellow officers are behaving in a way that is clearly unethical or excessively violent, and you witness this, please stop them. Someone will get that on video, and it will give the rest of us confidence that you can police yourselves. In these cases, our trust in you matters more to a civil society than how much you stick up for each other.
>And here’s a radical idea for the Minneapolis Police Department—why not give George Floyd the kind of full-dress funeral you give each other for dying in the line of duty? And vow that such a death will never happen again.
>Lastly, when you see black kids, think of what they can be rather than what you think they are.
all fairly reasonable, altough I'm not sure "sensitivity training" would have any effect, or how realistic it is to expect that wrongful police killings will never happen again, given the huge amount of police in america and the tens of thousands of arrests each year.
