see url:
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/20/briefing/walter-mondale-vice-president-rwanda-genocide.html
see full article...Interesting article on US policing. About 3 people
in the US get killed every day by law enforcement, which hasn't changed
for yoinks...
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Since George Floyd’s death last May, dozens of states and local
governments have changed their laws about police behavior. And yet
police officers continue to kill about three Americans each day on
average, nearly identical to the rate of police killings for as long as
statistics exist.
Which raises the question: Are the latest efforts to change policing —
to make it less violent, especially for Black and Latino Americans —
destined to fail?
Not necessarily, many experts say. They believe the recent changes are
meaningful. They will probably fall well short of solving the country’s
problem with needlessly violent police behavior. But the changes still
appear to be substantial, even if they will take some time to have a
noticeable effect.
“You actually can get a lot of common ground between police critics and
police themselves,” Rosa Brooks, a Georgetown University law professor
and former reserve police officer in Washington, told us. “There are
plenty of places where those conversations seem to be occurring in a
preliminary way.”
That common ground extends to public opinion. Most Americans disagree
with sweeping criticisms of the police, like the calls to abolish police
departments. (Rashida Tlaib, a Democratic congresswoman from Michigan,
wrote last week on Twitter: “No more policing, incarceration, and
militarization. It can’t be reformed.”) Recent polls show that most
Americans say they generally trust the police, and few if any mayors,
governors, congressional leaders or top members of the Biden
administration share Tlaib’s view.
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