I’ve been working through this Syllabus for White People to Educate Themselves, and to make the Shaun King material easier to read in order on my iPad, I decided to make a Table of Contents to all the links, and it makes sense to share.
- Solutions for police brutality can begin with our overwhelmingly white male justice system
- To help fix police brutality, cops can no longer have less training than the average cosmetologist
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Police officers should be routinely tested for drugs and steroids like American athletes - If you want to be a violent racist and never lose your job, become a police officer
- Police officers should be required to have a college degree
- Every city and state in America must ban racial profiling
- 911 operators must ask about mental health issues, a small change that could save lives
- To combat police brutality, hire more female cops — studies show they’re better at keeping their cool
- Why we must require cops to live in or near the area they police
- Communities of color are massively over-policed — effectively criminalizing color itself
- American police must be regularly tested for racial bias
- American police, who see humanity at its worst, must be regularly tested and treated for PTSD
- Why we must take police brutality cases all the way to the Supreme Court
- Good police must speak out against bad officers
- If nurses and doctors can treat the mentally ill without shooting them to death, so can American police
- Why police body cameras are failing, and the exact policies we must enact to unleash their power
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If a police officer must use force against a suspect, it should match the ‘crime’ - Every American police officer must have three weapons other than guns on them at all times
- It must become illegal for police to act violently using only their inaccurate imaginations
- American police departments are revenue generating monsters, policing for profit must be banned
- Police must record statements explaining their use of force immediately after each incident
- All use of force investigations must be turned over to an independent agency with binding instructions
- Police departments that fail to report killer cops don’t deserve federal funding
- Changing the culture of police brutality needs to happen on the state and local level
- Police officers, local prosecutors are two of a kind