Six white former law enforcement officers in Mississippi have pleaded guilty to a racist assault on Michael Corey Jenkins and his friend Eddie Terrell Parker, who are Black.
There’s no excuse for keeping excessively violent and racist cops on the force.
I read somewhere a couple of years back that a big roadblock to the concept of “police reform” is that many (all?) police unions have language that requires officers with less seniority to be laid off before officers with more seniority. This means that if the culture is being cultivated from the old guard, and it always is, that the only way to really root it out is to completely disband the department and then start it again with all new people.
This isn’t meant to be an excuse, but to explain why it’s so difficult; almost to the point where the phrase “police reform” is a nonsensical statement. It’s less “reform” and more scrap it all and start over.
I read somewhere a couple of years back that a big roadblock to the concept of “police reform” is that many (all?) police unions have language that requires officers with less seniority to be laid off before officers with more seniority. This means that if the culture is being cultivated from the old guard, and it always is, that the only way to really root it out is to completely disband the department and then start it again with all new people.
This isn’t meant to be an excuse, but to explain why it’s so difficult; almost to the point where the phrase “police reform” is a nonsensical statement. It’s less “reform” and more scrap it all and start over.