Victims families need to get a class action against this ghoul

While externally-imposed regulations and accountabilities can help a great deal, they can also be evaded by sufficiently committed, self-protecting warrior psychos.

In my opinion, the only long-term solution (and this is LONG term) is for progressives to infiltrate the police en masse and change all this shit from the inside out. That's what alt-righters have been doing with America's police system, legal system, education system, etc. etc. etc., and it's the only way to hit back against this crap in a meaningful way. "The world is run by the people who show up" is a cliche, but it applies here. If progressives are forever on the outside of the police force looking in (with disgust), they're essentially powerless to effect change.

So tell all your gay anarchist friends to get crew cuts, hit the juice and squat rack, graduate the police academy (I've heard it's embarrassingly easy) and get a couple of promotions. Then shift the culture from within. It's probably our only chance.

I'm not a lawyer, but if the city is training cops to kill people, you ought to be able to sue the city when innocent people are killed. This may have a better effect on the overall culture of policing than criminal prosecutions of Indianal cops. The police who killed Amadou Diallo in New York believed he had a gun. The witnesses confirmed this. What if they responded as the city had trained them to do? The system will protect them to a point, but eventually they were hung out to dry., charged with murder instead of manslaughter. (They were acquitted. )

In a pinch, the system protects itself, and then goes back t
to business as usual, in this case, training cops to kill.

The conventional wisdom is that most cops are decent public servants, that's consistent with my experience, but my experience is limited. I've seen the cops save a friend's life, but would they have been so courteous and helpful if my friend had been black? I think probably, but if I had been black, I would have been hassled by the cops enough so that I might not have called them.
all. Even if the actively racist cops are a minority, if you're black, they WILL get to you.

At this rate, I am never going to get to the point, which is that no one will be better served by curtailing police violence and police harassment, especially toward minorities, than the courteous and helpful police who are presumably the majority. Their jobs will become safer and easier. I think that people should talk about that more.

Every definition of qualified immunity that Ive seenfound applies to individual officers accused of violating the rights of individuals. What I'm suggesting is that if police departments are hiring this guy to train cops to kill people unnecessarily, maybe the department can be sued FOR THE TRAINING. The ideal plaintiff for this approach might actually be a policeman. If some cop somewhere, anywhere could win a case, that might open the floodgages, and change the way things are done.

Or not. If it was a workable idea, someone would have already tried it. If the Texas abortionblaw is upheld, that may give someone a new opportunity.