(06-05-2020, 12:14 PM)JagJohn Wrote: How would you respond to the many people on here who say that reform is impossible and pointless because it's only a handful of bad people?

Are all cops bad? I know liberals like to make absolute stereotype statements, but I think even you would agree they are not. Most of the cops are fine, so reform isn't needed for the whole. Yes they need to reform the ability to get rid of the bad people. They also could do with longer training, more cops living in the communities they patrol, more outreach in the communities ..... but that all costs money and now budgets are going to be cut even more.

None of those changes matter though if they can't get rid of bad people. They same thing goes for interacting with the communities. It doesn't matter if there are still bad people in the communities because the cops will still have to arrest them. You cannot ask a criminal who doesn't want to go to jail to handcuff themselves and get in a cop car and assume they will do it. Criminals will do whatever they can to stay out of jail, so cops have to take those precautions. The cops also know criminals have pasts, so when arresting someone they cannot assume you are unarmed and not a threat. Even if a criminal is not resisting, you cannot assume they will continue to comply until you have them secured.

Everyone always says we have to reform the cops, but they never mention controlling what they can immediately control. How about reforming yourself and your actions that cause you to interact with police. No one likes to interact with cops, but if you don't give cops a reason, it is a lot harder to get away with abusing their power. If you change the way you interact with cops, most cops will mimic your stance and return it back to you.

How about a protest where if you see a cop you lay on the ground and put your hands behind your back. That will have immediate actions to stop any violence from happening. It will be so over the top, that it will force some change and hopefully getting cops to interact.

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