It would be nice if counties stopped allowing them to buy armoured vehicles and ... this is a big one ... gave every one of them a psych eval prior to hiring.

There's a lot of things we need to do if we want police officers to remain armed.

1. Require officers to always patrol in doubles or more. (Many of the police involved shootings are panic shootings. A buddy who can help would reduce this.)

2. Require less than lethal force at least be attempted unless you're already getting shot at. (Currently police can shoot you if you twitch wrong or just have an object in plain sight like a gun, knife, or cellphone. We know this because they've done it and had no reprecussions. So now they lose the shoot first privilege.)

3. Ban them from conducting traffic stops. Stand up an unarmed traffic specific force that doesn't have the authority to arrest anyone or run warrants. They are specifically for civil traffic enforcement. (Many police involved shootings stem from stupid things like something hanging from the mirror or even just going 10 over the limit.) To be clear, you'd still need police officers for things like DUI. Felony speeding and such can be handled with cameras and actually taking cars away. Yes that's harsh in the US, but see how fast people decide it's not worth their car to go faster. (And yes speed is directly related to more accidents and fatalities in those accidents.)

4. Required marksmanship and tactical training. You don't get to carry a gun you haven't certified in and certification is a bit more intense than beer and bullets with your buddies at the range. If you want to tell us you're constantly at war then bring in some combat infantry veterans to design your certification program. Something like 90% hit rate on random targets while your heart is in the cardio zone and someone is randomly setting off artillery simulators. Yes that's well above what the Army or Marines officially requires but you keep telling us how highly trained you are and how dangerous your job is. Prove it with the drills we did before combat deployments.

5. Always on cameras with gunshot detectors. When the detector goes off it automatically starts uploading a feed to the ACLU. If your camera is conveniently blocked then not only do you not get qualified immunity but it's also a sentence enhancement if you're convicted and charges for destroying evidence.

We act like there's a binary solution to the problem of police accountability. But it doesn't have to be binary. The only unacceptable thing at this point is to continue allowing police to have all the power and none of the accountability.

i didnt say only

They've investigated themselves and found that everything they're doing is completely acceptable. Carry on citizen.

Conservatives just like seeing police beat up those they disagree with.

Your second question solves the first.

It definitely showed just how powerful and overwhelming copaganda is. "Defund the Police" really struck a nerve with the people who hold the power in US society, I think we should keep striking that nerve.

The reasoning you just used was in the form of an anecdote, which undermines your whole point. Anecdotal thinking is one of the most common ways that humans arrive at irrational conclusions.

Why should you care? Well, if you believe what you stated, then you should want other people to believe it too. In order to do this the first step is to learn how to present it without any of the common logical flaws humans are born with.

Your argument pattern is, "Event X happened and I saw it, therefore Y". No. You need a much larger sample size to make a point. I can't teach you rational argument in one post, but hopefully you'll become curious enough to learn. Have a nice day.

Just saw a video on

Is this the video you saw?

There are crazy, dangerous people in the world.

Yes. And they become a whole lot more dangerous once they get a badge.

No, Clyde... there is no such thing as a "good" cop.

What if I'm physically disabled? Which literally everyone is, in relation to a stronger individual or group (and there's literally always someone/something bigger than you)... Does that mean I don't have the "right" to be anti-murder, even if the murderer is someone with a badge?

Or maybe there's a sliding scale, with how much of a position of principle that I'm allowed hold correlating proportionally to how much I can bench or how quickly I can subdue an opponent?

That sounds pretty fascist.