How many stories of police brutality do we need to hear about before we realize

[Zalatix]

that the system is in desperate need of fixing from the roots on up?

When gun owners go on a rampage we call for the severe restriction of gun ownership.

What about when cops kill people without justification, and they get away with it? When do we start calling for them to be disarmed?

Of course this is hardly an adequate solution to deal with all the nutcase psychopaths we have infesting our nation's law enforcement system, but it's a start.

[davidcouper]

1. How to Improve Police

Let's look at how we can improve the system called "policing." For insight and direction on this and other important police improvement issues, take a look at “Arrested Development: A Veteran Police Chief Sounds Off About Protest, Racism, Corruption and the Seven Steps Necessary to Improve Our Nation’s Police” (Amazon.com in US and EU). And the blog at http://improvingpolice.wordpress.com/ where other current police improvement issues are discussed. Good luck and may we all experience not just good but great policing! Great policing is accomplished by police who are well-trained and led, restrained in their use of force, honest, and courteous to every citizen.

[Zalatix]

2. Great ideas, but won't this mean the terrorists win?

Sounds like an interesting book. At least it's written by a law enforcement veteran. He's got a lot of work cut out for him if he is serious about this - law enforcement has had a sordid history from the start. Hell, US Marshals practically started out with hunting escaped slaves.