Worries that there are racists and gun-happy officers on our police force? That is something the cities have more power to fix than the federal government. It is a national issue, but the answers are local.
With municipal elections just having passed, this issue was largely overlooked. Nobody even considered it. Oh, they considered defunding, but not this. This is a matter of which officers should be hired and which should be fired. Do police departments even have policies in place that screen out racist cops? Do they monitor their officers for signals of racisms? Do they have mechanisms for kicking the racist officers off their squads?
Cities do the hiring and firing. It is they who must address this problem.
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