What Oakland Has To Tell Us About Police Reform

The cause of police reform has slipped down the political agenda recently.
Action from Capitol Hill is improbable now that Republicans control the House.

[animaalcub]

“The people in those communities”. Exactly- he doesn’t live here. He has zero clue.

[bigtex]

You'll never have real reform unless the police unions go away. It's almost impossible for the Chief here in San Antonio to fire some knucklehead who needs to go.

[palden]

No music in the background, please! :)

[tomdrake]

Has he seen the amount of crime going on in Oakland?

[KentoLeoDragon]

Police reform isn't something you do, and then you're done. It's something that needs to be ongoing. Policies and procedures need to be continually modernized. Increasing diversity in the police force doesn't mean much. You can hire all the women and minorities you want but it's meaningless if they join the good ol' boy system. That's the problem. Police officers need to feel safe policing themselves. Cops know when their buddy is doing something wrong and they need to feel they can police themselves without retaliation.

[mishaDorjan]

Police are necessary. But there is no doubt that our justice system, our laws, and our police departments need to be reformed and retrained

[nickames]

There IS A Significant Percentage of ALL PEOPLE that WANT "Tough Policing"! Halfway thru the vid, I hope this is addressed.

[scottl.]

we need more police, not fewer. We need tough enforcement and prosecution of criminals, not coddling them. Put the protection of law abiding citizens before coddling the criminal.

[_RR]

Up I-5? Interstate 5 doesn't run through Oakland man

[KonigGustavAdolph]

Why would you want to engage meaningfully when you can get let the guys proselytize the whole segment?!

[dave]

Unfortunately these two authors just put a huge red target on their backs.

[mcgruff]

Can you imagine a cop who only deals with black criminals day after day! How his he not going to be racist!