Police Accountability
Is this even possible?
In the summer of 2020, when protests against the police were peaking, a Gallup poll was released that showed 94% of individuals supported changes made to policing. (58% supported major changes, 36% supported minor changes.) This number has presumably gone down over the past year, but it’s fair to say that a strong majority of Americans want updates and improvements to how our police function in this country.
For some people, they want to wipe the slate clean and start fresh with an entirely new system of public safety. Some people want to reduce the number of police-citizen interactions by creating new specialized teams that can respond to most 911 calls. Still others want to give police more resources so that the police can update their practices on their own.
Almost everybody seems to want change, but change isn’t happening.
I came across a YouTube video on holding harm doers accountable. The individuals in the clip are speaking on holding individuals accountable but because I was in a policing headspace when I saw it, I could only think about how it related to the police. It’s about 15 minutes long, please check it out here:
