Alternatively, these feelings about this post are falling prey to fascist tactics. Freedom of Speech is a concept of the past and they will keep “joking” about it as they clamp down more and more till criticism is silenced out. The whole time, these feelings will have been unwillingly supporting it by dismissing the carefully orchestrated circus show of smoke, rights violations and mirrors as merely being the mirrors, circus and smoke.

The most important thing is to first have a governing body that governs the police, without being police.

Without this, nothing here matters because they haze, and brutalize those who do not conform to their awful internal group standards.

You can literally see what happens to good cops. They get forced out.

The problem with your post, is that you can’t help someone who does not want to be helped.

Ideally that type of person would be kicked out of the force, but instead they comprise of the majority of these forces.

Just to be clear, many if not most agencies have mandatory psych evals, visits etc after different types of incidents, but as you can see, they just don’t solve the problem.