This goes on and on with more and more abuses.
Want to stop it?
1) Mandate Civilian Review Boards.
2) Mandate residency requirement for all law enforcement - no more armies of occupation.
3) Replace all police chiefs with civilian directors of public safety who answer directly to the taxpayers and not the PBA and FOP.
4) End 20 and out. A life’s pension for a life of service.
5) Mandate a civilian presence in each and every damn police academy class to monitor what these cretins are taught there.
6) End use of paramilitary training, equipment and tactics for dealing with run of the mill criminals. If they need a military presence, call in people who KNOW what they are doing - the National Guard.
End of this month I am one of just a couple of civilian volunteers to audit a police academy class. The public relations division is asking if we can find others that want to audit other classes. . .they run adverts in the local paper, run spots on the radio. . .hardly anybody asks.
Oh, number 3 is a little odd to me. The police chiefs answer to the City Manager or Mayor. Adding a civilian “chief” would mean the guy would be answering to the same City Manager of Mayor.
Something must change.
Feh...get their names, find their homes. Visit them at night. Some of the founding fathers did such and many problems were solved.