Why Reform is Needed?

• Black men and boys have a 1 and 1000 chance of being killed by the police within their lifetime.
• Police have killed over 1,100 people in 2020
• There are over 20 cases of black people killed by police in 2020
• Black, Native American, and Latino men and women are more likely to be killed by police than white men and women
  
  • Black people have a 4 out of 100,000 chance of being killed by police
  • Native American people have a 3 out of 100,000 chance of being killed by police
  • Latino people have a 2 out of 100,000 chance of being killed by police
  • White people have a 1 out of 100,000 chance of being killed by police
• Only a third of the police who have killed people are convicted.
  Less, and fewer Americans think that police use the right amount of force and treat everyone equally.

Solutions

Please the public while keeping crime rates down, this could be done by:

• Giving the people a voice, so they can explain their situation before any action is taken
• Showing their community that they are unbiased, and care. This could be done by explaining what they are doing, and why they are doing that
  This solution has been tested on randomly assigned officers in Seattle and has shown that it leads to a reduction of force by 15% and 40%, but they arrest people less and are less likely to be involved with incidents where force has to be used. 

Change and create new policies including:

• Keeping officers on foot chases away at the end of the chase, and calling in officers not involved with the chase to arrest the person.
  This policy needs to be created because the officers on the chase are most likely adrenaline high, which makes it more likely for the officer to use an excessive amount of force. This has been used by the Las Vegas Police Department, and it led to a 23% drop in the use of force in the department.
• Officers that see their co-workers doing something wrong have to intervene. 
  This solution was made by the New Orleans Police Department and is now being used in New Hampshire and Washington state as well as other cities. An example of this being used was in a protest in New Orleans, where an officer was spat in the face by a protester, and another officer held him back from attacking the protesters and escalating the situation. 
• Keep a record of complaints about each officer and correct them after a certain amount of complaints.
• Create a database where cases of excessive use of force are stored, there should be the injuries that the victim got, and their race, skin color, and sex. The correction system should report officers who either:
  • Receive 2 or more complaints in the past month
  • Have 2 or more cases of excessive use of force in the past month
  • For the officers to be corrected, they would be sent to re-train, then have them monitored for their first quarter. If an officer has to be corrected multiple times, then he will be fired.
  • This policy has been implemented in many states and cities, such as Seattle, Indianapolis, Illinois, and Connecticut. The complaints in these states and cities have gone down by 50% after this policy was put in.