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My suggestions:

Remove qualified immunity.  That much authority and power requires consequences when fuckups occur.
Hold police to a _higher_ standard than civilians when it comes to criminal conduct, especially while on the job.
Abolish police unions.
Require accredited higher education. Ban the shady "warrior mentality" seminars.
Oversight boards that aren't part of the police dept itself and have absolute authority to fire and blacklist bad cops.
Records transparency - require departmental record keeping and subject those records to FOIA requests.

Any cop that whines "but then nobody will want to be a cop"... yeah, people with that toxic mentality _won't_ want to be a cop.  That's the point.  We only want intelligent, responsible, and accountable people in that position.
I always thought it was telling when Mike Pence would not get in the car that was being driven by the secret service on January 6th.   I think he also suspected they were compromised by the former president. >

This is still huge for me, and it shocks me how little it seems like people talk about this. When the VP is afraid of someone on the inside, this should terrify everyone. >

Law enforcement agencies have always been populated by right wingers, at every level from local to federal, so no surprise the Secret Service is full of Trump supporters >

Consistently throughout history law enforcement have been ready and willing to serve the fascists. Hitler had to purge the military in his rise to power, no such thing was needed to turn police into genocidal enforcers. >

Honest question, why is this? What is it about the incentive structures of police that leads to this outcome. Furthermore, is it possible to change the incentives such that this link is broken? >

They are overpaid, feared by the populace, and provide daily opportunities to make people they dislike either feel like shit or cause them irreparable harm while carrying around state of the art PEW PEW machines.  They get to do all of this with zero consequences whatsoever, as police unions investigate themselves and find no wrongdoing.  It's a corrupt system ripe for abuse, so it attracts the shittiest type of person.
ACAB. >

Genuine question: what’s the alternative