Police Review Boards May Create the Problems They Were Designed to Solve

Townhall ^ | April 19, 2019 | John R. Lott, Jr.

[rogerantone1]

If police worry that politicians will be more interested in making a name for themselves than looking at the facts, they may simply try to avoid confronting criminals. That is surely a recipe for increased crime.

[Lurker]

I disagree with Mr. Lott. They’re doing exactly what they were designed to do, gum up the works.

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[Valpal1]

I agree with Michael Bell (USAF, retired) whose son was killed by police in Kenosha, WI. We’ve been pushing for a National Transportation Safety Board type of learning system for law enforcement. Any accident that happens in transportation gets looked at. They issue a recommendation to help prevent it from happening again. About 80 percent of those recommendations are implemented. Law enforcement doesn’t have a system like that. They don’t have learning models to issue recommendations. They don’t even have a data set or storage system to see if reforms are improving the problems. If they can learn a different way of doing something, after they recognize that somebody died accidentally, they don’t even share those lessons among each other.

I think there is a problem and that this is the best solution.

[bankwalker]

The real problem is that they cover for each other ... brothers and all ya know ...