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"How could this have happened?!" Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens...
“And as this family mourns, my heart bleeds, and I mourn also with them,” he said, adding, “We’ll do our very best to make sure that it doesn’t occur again.”

Narrator: Another unarmed black man was shot three days later. >

It seems the actual story should be the police shooting an unarmed civilian in the back as they fled, not the chief's feelings. >

This is just media backed police propaganda. They are trying to make these murdering thugs seem empathetic after the fact, rather than just reporting the facts when police murder citizens. >

Won't someone please think of how the chief's emotions were negatively impacted by their own employee murdering an unarmed civilian??? /s >

Another day, another 2.8 people executed by US police. >

Progress would be no longer shooting black Americans to death, not learning better PR afterwards. >

Not from their perspective. If they just get good enough at PR, they get to keep murdering as much as they want. >

They know what’s coming. People have been insinuating that it’s time to start shooting back and I’m sure the smart ones are getting afraid. Yes it’s PR but they are also trying to save themselves from the inevitable consequences of these actions. They have lost the trust of a significant amount of people after decades of propaganda cop shows they used to promote themselves into hero status. There is nothing I can think of that could repair their reputation and they can’t fix such a widely broken profession quickly. >

As someone who was once brainwashed to serve in the American military, I can tell you that all it takes to completely change an organization is one strong leader that is willing to enforce standards and accountability.
But the police force has lacked these two things for so long, there isn’t any leadership that even understands what that means. You are right. It is a lost cause. And they all deserve everything that comes to them, because they did this to themselves. They have let their bunch rot to the core. >

I’m from the military too and I agree strong focused leadership works but not with 20,000 different agencies in the US. While I don’t think having a national police service is a good idea they do need something that can standardize themselves. They don’t want to change though and the evidence is that they are preparing for armed revolution by militarizing. 
The police unions are one of the biggest culprits in this mess. One thought would be to have a national police union that offers training and certification. Tie that to an insurance system like banks have in the FDIC and you would be able to enforce bonding. If a department has too many incidents you can decertify it and let the national union pool resources to temporarily fill those gaps. >

I agree with much of what you have said. The system definitely needs to change in order to have any meaningful change in their operations.
I do, however, have concerns that creating more barriers to entry and an insurance requirement would lead to other unintended consequences.
Requiring more training or a college degree, for example, would reduce the pool of potential applicants, making it harder to find people that qualify for the job. This would make departments even less likely, over time, to fire bad employees.
And an insurance requirement would create a for profit industry that would stand to gain financially from laws and policies that are lenient on police, or that cap payouts from judgements against cops. They would therefore have financial incentive to lobby legislatures and municipalities for those types of laws and policies. We already see similar lobbying by the medical malpractice insurance industry, which has resulted in caps on malpractice awards in some states. >

The insurance would be like FDIC and paid by members police departments or their unions to certify members. Caps maybe an issue but I would say you start with a government backed insurance like that. As far as a barrier to entry, over time it will become better because with trust in policing crime rates will fall. A big reason crime rates in the inner city is so high is because people don’t trust the police so offenders keep committing crimes until they hurt or kill people. Better caliber of police will reduce that like you see in other countries that require more training and higher education. The last piece I didn’t mention is a criminal rehabilitation system instead of only incarceration. That will drop recidivism because you focus on reforming a person and helping them re-enter society. This will take decades. >

Just add it to the list and move on says police. >

Seems like as the chief of police he could have prevented this from happening, but I guess instead he'll just be sad about it and then in a month one of his cops will shoot another person.