Abolish or reform? Proposals to end police violence seek “radical transformation”
SalonCalls for police reform reached a groundswell after the police killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and, more recently, Rayshard Brooks. At the federal level, lawmakers need to create a national use-of-force standard "so that police can only use force when necessary and only after exhausting all reasonable alternatives," said Garcia, who previously served as an attorney at the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division. Khanna said that the police shooting of Rayshard Brooks in Atlanta, for example, could have been prevented "if police couldn't use force unless it was absolutely necessary." "I believe we need to rethink the police, and their roles to 'preserve and protect,'" McDaniel, who now heads the Homeland and National Security Law program at Western Michigan University's Cooley Law School, told Salon. Rather than "reform" police, Hoag said, "local communities, states and the federal government must engage in a full-scale reckoning and reconciliation of the nation's legacy of slavery."
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