Just to be clear,
my suggestions were actually policy changes being discussed in Minneapolis by their city council. But you probably already knew that.
routine traffic stop
At the end of the day, cops are just people doing a tough job. They wanna go home to their family when their shift is over. One of the ways we can get away from the pervasive Us v Them mentality is to relieve them of some of the things that could be better serve by utilizing unarmed, trained professionals who know how to handle what’s going on.
We also need to have police who are engaged with the community they are policing. There are perfectly valid reasons you don’t want your local beat cop literally living next door. But we see the effects of cops living within insular communities (like Broad Channel, Smith Town or Staten Island) well outside their district, then driving 45 minutes into communities whose residents look nothing like the places they live try to do their job.