But KUDOS to the President for trying.

than pass this modest proposal from president Obama.

Standardize hiring practices and filter out these nutjobs. Retrain all current officers to use non lethal or aggressive tactics unless absolutely necessary. And personally, all unarmed civilian deaths caused by a police officer should result in the immediate dismissal of the officer from the police force, no exceptions.

for the sake of collecting forensic data, drug testing, etc. If there could be an issue of wrongful death, it's so convenient that the police do not now collect this.

Unarmed does not mean not dangerous.

Automatic dismissal, no exceptions is too extreme. Police officers have been beaten to death before, look up El Paso police officer Jonathan Molina. The man who murdered Molina was technically unarmed.

I would go for automatic indictment on a minimum of manslaughter charges though. That way there can be a full and fair trial, and if it does come out to be justified the officer does not lose his career.

No matter how much video is shot or evidence is presented, people who hate cops will blame the cops. People who love cops will blame the dead guy.

Such is the way it works when people ignore the evidence for their own reasons.

They cover up microphones when a suspect doesn't say what they want him to

Like....the cops aren't allowed to do it.

Nothing like this would have even been considered with a Republican in the White House. This is a great start.

I wonder how it will go over but it's wonderful!

Do you know which of the Ferguson protest leaders will be at the White House?

Thanks for the post!

But............. next up will be the claims of altered video.

the federal government should foot the entire bill for this. It sounds like a good start. I just hope that the places that get the grants are places that have these sort of issues. Places like Ferguson should be higher priority than, say, rural Vermont, though that's not always the case with these sort of grants.

No video available . . . just gotta trust the cop.

We need to have these people on camera with sound at all time available live over the internet and archived for the public.

I will happily pay taxes to make this happen.