We need body cams and dash cams with volume that can't be turned off by the officer.
We need heavier background checks and psych evaluations for each officer in every force.
A degree in Criminology should be a requirement for all officers, regardless of rank.
The penalties should be made more severe for each and every crime, and the bureaucracy that causes issues with indicting police officers needs to be more streamlined.
The whole system needs to be overhauled in it's entirety.
That definitely needs to happen. We should hold the people who uphold the laws to a higher standard, not a lesser one, or fuk at this point i'd settle for the SAME standard the rest of us are subject too.
Civilian oversight as well, and by civilian I mean civilian, not EX police officers. Yeah it'd make there jobs harder, so what.
...but also, they should be paid more because honestly they don't get paid enough to deal with the shyt they do have to deal with.
My favorite part is where police departments don't say shyt to "minimize liability" (e.g. not take responsibility), and allow the officer to resign, where he is likely to get hired in another department.