1. Qualified immunity needs to go, it isn't even <i>law</i>; it was concocted by SCOTUS out of nothing in 1967.<p>2. A special force that only investigates law enforcement officers and their wrongdoing (like GIBS in Czechia [0]) could help. Not even police can police themselves.<p>3. A lot more professional education for officers would be good, US officers have less training than their counterparts in other developed countries. [1]<p>[0] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Inspection_of_Security_Forces" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Inspection_of_Security...</a><p>[1] <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-56834733" rel="nofollow">https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-56834733</a>
Best solution I heard was to require police to carry individual "malpractice" insurance.<p>Good cops will tend to get better insurance rates than cops who rough up their fellow citizens on video.
The kinds of policing that happens depends a lot on the population being policed.<p>Policing in a violent section of Mex City, Paris, Lagos, Jburg, etc., will be similar to sections of cities in the US where violence is prevalent. More peaceful sections of the city get policed differently because the crimes committed and incidence of crimes are different.<p>The interesting about the Minn events is that the chokehold used was in their instruction booklet --of course that doesn't excuse the disregard for suspect's distress. The police need to be heavily trained on the difficulties and dangers of restraining an uncooperative subject (often under the influence of drugs).<p>According to one study over 120 people are known to have died in prone positions, as it's referred to: <a href="https://www.9news.com/article/news/investigations/prone-restraint-police-deaths/73-a4ae192c-ceb6-4815-9e72-2f8a8072765c" rel="nofollow">https://www.9news.com/article/news/investigations/prone-rest...</a>