Policing in crisis in the US

Washington, D.C.—The recent cases of police excessive use of force and the treatment against minorities in the in small, medium, and large cities, including rural areas—cannot longer continue to be ignored in the United States. Regardless if you are a “Liberal” or a “Conservative,” the fact of the matter is that something must be fixed.

Many books and journals have been written about reforming the Intelligence Community (IC), following the 9/11 attacks, but little has been written about the policing practices in the United States. Making things more challenging, police departments in the United States have been under pressure by government managers to reduce their operation costs, which absorb a considerable amount of their budgets.

Therefore, diversity training, and community policing practices including in most cases crime prevention has been diminished or completely taken out of the policing world in many police departments. Continuing education for officers addressing customer service and professionalization when dealing with people are nearly non-existent or not available. "

*The reality that policing is not something to be use as a means to impart force against the community or people they come in contact with and in particular minorities. I am saddened to see what happens every day more for what we see in the news every week now. Latinos killed for throwing rocks or people arrested for not putting off a cigarette.

Things that normally could have much different outcomes but somehow, in the police culture of these departments, something is not working. My hypothesis is that inside these police departments and their culture: Management condones racism and excessive use of force. Period.

*The people should be able to question why they are stopped or why they are getting arrested. The officers must get back to their mission and who pays their salary.

In Iguala, Guerrero, Mexico, on September 2014, 43 students were arrested by police and it appears they complied with the demands of the police, after receiving a shower of bullets and a few killed in the interaction. Nobody knows where they are now. Are we in the US heading to a similar situation or should people be able to question authority? "

http://www.examiner.com/article/policing-crisis-the-us-rooted-racism-inside-police-cultures