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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.
“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.