2016 Postmortem

jfern

(5,204 posts) Mon Sep 7, 2015, 05:11 PM Sep 2015

Bernie Sanders has a Plan for Racial Justice

Here's the plan

1. We must demilitarize our police forces so they don’t look and act like invading armies.
2. We must invest in community policing. Only when we get officers into the communities, working within neighborhoods before trouble arises, do we develop the relationships necessary to make our communities safer together. Among other things, that means increasing civilian oversight of police departments.

3. We need police forces that reflect the diversity of our communities.

4. At the federal level we need to establish a new model police training program that reorients the way we do law enforcement in this country. With input from a broad segment of the community including activists and leaders from organizations like Black Lives Matter we will reinvent how we police America.

5. We need to federally fund and require body cameras for law enforcement officers to make it easier to hold them accountable.

6. Our Justice Department must aggressively investigate and prosecute police officers who break the law and hold them accountable for their actions.

7. We need to require police departments and states to provide public reports on all police shootings and deaths that take place while in police custody.

8. We need new rules on the allowable use of force. Police officers need to be trained to de-escalate confrontations and to humanely interact with people who have mental illnesses.

10. States and localities that make progress in this area should get more federal justice grant money. Those that do not should get their funding slashed.

11. We need to make sure the federal resources are there to crack down on the illegal activities of hate groups