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DudeWithAnAxeToGrind t1_j9n8m4v wrote

Reply to comment by InsuranceToTheRescue in Supreme Court rejects man’s bid to sue police over arrest for Facebook parody by sue_me_please

Those "many other countries" don't have 18,000 police forces like the US has. They have one regular police force, sometime supplemented by gendarmerie.

Remember that every single one of those 18,000 police departments is a fully independent police force that has nothing to do with any of the other police departments in the country. They each answer to and only to their local city council. And we all know how "competent" and corrupt an average "small town USA" city council is. So you get police force to match. Many of these small towns use their police departments as money making machine.

If you are angry at your police department but keep voting same people in for mayor and city council (or worse don't bother to vote, or have no idea who the people running for those offices are and just skip that part of the ballot)... You are totally missing your target. The mayor and city council are 100% responsible for every single thing that the police department does. They are the ones who appoint and command the police chief.

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I-Am-Uncreative t1_j9nj030 wrote

I feel like these different police forces should all be abolished so that each state has one uniform police department with one, uniform, set of policies.

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Rope_blaster69 t1_j9o8wc3 wrote

3rd party review on ALL police interactions resulting in any injuries. Police should also have harsher and more exclusive charges for crimes committed on duty, since they enforce the law, if they abuse it, they should be held to a higher standard. If I commit a crime and get 25 years for it, an officer that commits the same crime should get 30. Above all else, no bad actors left uncharged.

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