We need a nationally implemented Law Enforcement Officers reformation to ensure the safety of all Americans. And to ensure the safety of good Law Enforcement Officers. Bad law enforcement officers and departments create a dangerous environment for the good officers.

Lawmakers MUST address these 5 major concerns:

1. Improved screening standards, AND minimum national standards for screening police applicants.
   
   This MUST include psychological and emotional screening.
   
   
2. Increased educational and training standards AND minimum national educational and training standards for police applicants and departments. This includes increased and nationalized standards for ongoing training for law enforcement personnel serving on a police force.
   
   
3. Improved assessments and nationally standardized assessments of potential dangers and risks from law enforcement personnel. Officers consistently showing signs of a bullying behavior towards the citizens they are suppose to protect, need to be phased out with haste. We need to make sure that any law enforcement officer, and any police applicant is mentally fit for the job.
   
   a) Required assessments of law enforcement personnel at nationally set increments (example: assessed yearly, or every 2 years, or 5 year, or 10).
   
   b) Required and improved assessments of law enforcement personnel after involvement in an incident where a life is taken, or involvement in an incident where severe trauma or bodily harm has occurred to a person or persons.
   
   A Law Enforcement Personnel who has become numb to traumatic events carries a potential of danger and risk to the citizens they serve.
   
   
4. Minimum mandated punishments for specified actions of excessive force and negligence taken by law enforcement officials, if they are found guilty, to prevent guilty law enforcement officials from getting off with just a slap on the wrist. While officers need some level of protection for the services they provide to the citizens, when an officer is found guilty of negligence there needs to be consequences for their actions.
5. A system must be implemented with a means for concerned citizens (whether a witness to an officer's mistreatment of another, or a victim of an officer's mistreatment) to report abusive officers. THIS SYSTEM MUST:
   
   a)  Exist at the national level and must circumvent the local authorities to ensure a report is taken and to prevent potential retaliation towards the citizen or victim calling in the report.
   
   Having a system to report dangerous police behavior would be life changing for many Americans and their neighborhoods. This would also help establish more trust for many Americans in their government.
   
   b)  Record a citizen's account by a sworn-in officer of the federal government, using legal standards to take and record the report in case the report needs to be used by the judicial system.
   
   c)  If certain thresholds are met by a report or multiple reports for a single officer or department, initiate an investigation by federal into the officer's or department's behavior. The use of thresholds is to limit the abuse of such a reporting system.
   
   d) Have accessibility by victims for court use.

While liberty should always have priority or safety, EQUALITY of safety enforced by our law enforcement agencies and their officers is a civil right we must uphold for all Americans, regardless of their race, religion, or beliefs.