Campaign Zero: A 'Blueprint for Ending Police Violence'

[eridani]

http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/08/21/campaign-zero-blueprint-ending-police-violence

On Friday, activists with the country's growing racial justice movement unveiled a new campaign to end police violence, bridging protester demands with data and policy to create structural solutions to the crisis that has gripped national attention for more than a year.

Launched as an online manifesto with an interactive website, Campaign Zero proposes new federal, state, and local laws that would address police violence and reform the criminal justice system—including demilitarizing law enforcement, increasing community oversight, limiting use-of-force, and requiring independent investigation and prosecution of police violence cases.

"More than one thousand people are killed by police every year in America," the group states on its website. "Nearly sixty percent of victims did not have a gun or were involved in activities that should not require police intervention such as harmless 'quality of life' behaviors or mental health crises."

The action plan also incorporates recommendations by the President's Task Force on 21st Century Policing as well as those of research organizations like the Center for Popular Democracy. The architects behind Campaign Zero characterized it as a project that will continue to develop over time as new solutions emerge and more supporters come on board.

[azmom]

1. What's up with Hillary's plan?

Not much there.

[Lee-Lee]

2. A lot of that sounds great, some is questionable, some

Seems almost vindictive.

One bad idea is the proposal to put all cops on unpaid suspension following any shooting while its investigated. So a good cop with a family and mortgage and bills who is involved in a 100% justified shooting loses his/her paycheck for weeks or longer just "because"?