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With all that said, I believe one something to help prevent this is officer training.
We need to raise the bar and set higher standards. Minimum 23 years of age and college degree. Boot camp style basic training, continuing training once on the force.
Dozens of studies prove "street smart" officers are buffoons and that class room educated, articulate officers do better work. They reason through problems better, they document better, they follow procedure better.
The issue here would then be an outcry about "community policing" and the ethnic make up of the force.
To be blunt and insensitive, you'll see more white boys from middle class families and communities policing black, Latino and white lower class slums. (More whites numerically live in poverty then blacks)
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