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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^^PS: and the fact that there are people in this very thread who cannot acknowledge there is a problem that needs to be addressed means something, too. [/quote]

I suspect the vast majority of people recognize there are major problems in the ways police use force throughout the US. Many of us understand they have an extremely difficult job and would like them better supported with longer training and mental health resources while on the job.

There is at least one person in every thread on unjustified police killings that becomes extremely defensive about all police work and accuses the victims of police violence of being on drugs and resisting arrest. It is not helping the police though he thinks he is. [/quote]

Don't you think that a critical way to support LEOs in their very difficult jobs would be to set in place oversight over what happens to the "bad apple" colleagues, so they are not passed from site to site, too? Can't that be mentioned whenever we mention other supports for them, even though it means bringing in the same level of state legislative oversight that other professions are burdened with (not fun, but necessary)?

I'm always happy to include mental health supports and longer training whenever I have the discussion about career level licensure for this kind of job. I think all of this is important, but only one leg of that would be relatively quick to implement with the least amount of infrastructure and funding burden, and that's tracking with teeth. [/quote]

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