What Policing Should look like

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Agorism FTW!
According to Stephen Downing, former deputy chief of police with the Los Angeles Police Department.

After explaining Sir Robert Peel’s Nine Principles of Policing, which have been around since 1829, and offering a long list of policy recommendations in line with those principles, he summarizes:
With these kinds of reforms in place we could begin to heal our communities; diminish the mass incarceration of people of color; allow more parents to be with their children and fewer children to be sent to foster homes; recognize that addiction is a health rather than a criminal-justice problem, and supplant prison with treatment; abate the arms race between the police, gangs, and cartels; end police profiling; and restore the requirement of reasonable suspicion as an irrevocable feature of constitutional policing. Then, and only then, will we be able to return to a true model of policing in which the police and the people are one.

The principles and policy recommendations are well worth a read.