Why Defunding Police is Bad

… and it’s more than abolishing qualified immunity. We need an actual separate oversight board to investigate complaints and incidents. One that can hand out proper punishment and submit charges to a prosecutor and judge that are not part of the courts the cops work in. We also need a dishonorable discharge for cops. You get fired, you become a felon equivalent like the military. Furthermore, cops need to be individually bonded/insured. Lawsuits need to come out of their pensions and personal assets. But with that, we also need a system that protects the honest cops that will arrest / report fellow pigs breaking the law. Lastly, they should have no ability to stop their cameras. It should all be publicly available within 24 hours of their shift ending. The 24 hours is to review any bathroom breaks AND insert flags for each interaction with the relevant information (so it’s searchable by cop, day, other cops on same call). Defunding or abolishing the police will not result in anything good. -Ban public service unions -install civilian oversight boards that: a. Have no secondary relations to any law enforcement b. Whose membership can be contested by any other citizen c. Are the body that reviews ALL complaints and ALL incidents involving use of force (bye bye QI) d. Have the authority to mete out termination/ punishment e. Have a special prosecutor to whom they can refer criminal offenses whether for actions taken by an officer OR actions such as hiding/tampering with bodycam footage, lack of footage, misleading/falsified reports - bodycams that run 24/7. Every minute you’re on shift is recorded. All the button does is add a tag. a. Blur video of bathroom breaks, but all audio must remain intact b. Tags (button presses) should all occur within 20s of being called (so well before arriving on scene) c. Tags are used to enter metadata such as: Date, officer, incident report, location, numbers and names of other responding cars and officers, type of call, type of incident. But no names of encountered free citizens unless they specifically request it so they can find the footage more easily d. These tags are then searchable a la YouTube style e. Any videos longer than 5min should also have time stamp links for any event - ID request, use of force, radio calls, etc f. Said shift video, should be split, tagged, marked, and uploaded in a manner organized by date and officer within 72 hours of the shift ending. - any incident of a bodycam “malfunction” or serious video problems should result in an immediate suspension and validating investigation not to exceed 96 hours. A true equipment malfunction should see the cop back on duty and paid for missed hours after it’s been cleared. If evidence of tampering or “I forgot my bodycam because I took it off” or some other bullshit shows up, the suspension should be minimum 2 weeks without pay. Whether the tampering was “accidental” (I forgot to pick up my bodycam after illegally taking it off) or “intentional” (bodycam knocked off and after subject was detained I did not make any effort to immediately retrieve it” should result in punitive punishment up to and including termination - Nationwide blacklist: if you get fired for intentional disregard of policy, you cannot be a cop ANYWHERE. Also, it should be treated as a dishonorable discharge and you suffer the same loss of rights as a service member. Lastly, QI should have to be EARNED in a hearing with a double blind jury selection. That both sides argue against. With the extra consideration that a reasonable person would act in such a way. And must be a unanimous decision, any one dissenting juror kills your QI