Police kill Black people at a rate disproportionate to both criminal activity and their presence in the population at large. We need to return to a standard of police protecting our communities through commonsense interactions with citizens, rather than extrajudicial killings. There should be a federal minimum standard for hours both in the classroom and outside the classroom teaching new and existing officers deescalation techniques. There should be a federal minimum standard for teaching new and existing officers about implicit bias and how that can potentially influence their interactions with people of color.
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