I agree with all except prosecuting all cops as crime. In a self defense situation that is clearly self defense, one expects prosecutors to accept the facts and not persecute the shooter.
But I do admit that an outside group of prosecutors would see that a lot of questionable cases would be tried fairly. I would suspect that they would also dismiss charges against those cops who shot according to the ordinary rules of self defense, which of course includes the defense of others.
And I definitely agree with your opinion on no knock raids. That and swat teams used for everything except failure to feed the parking meter have done much to damage public opinion.
If it’s a clear self defense situation the trial will be quick and they’ll be absolved. Part of our problem now is the people don’t trust the cops so whenever a cop is involved in a shooting and nothing happens to them there’s a big crowd that just assumes it’s cops protecting their own. Because we’ve seen so many obviously bad shoots that result in nothing. Putting them all on trial puts all the evidence in the public record and demonstrates to the public that accountability is built into the system.
Convince the people that there is actual police accountability and we step back on that, maybe have a subsection of our prosecutors review the evidence of all shootings, still making available as public record, and then give a recommendation to press charges. But at this juncture when anybody that pays attention has probably half a dozen shootings they can remember instantly that resulted in nothing part of the project has to be winning back public trust. And if that puts a lot of cops on trial that “shouldn’t” be, too bad. That’s life in a barrel with bad apples.