Nobody would care about any of this if there were a modicum of accountability for police. They could try actually enforcing current laws against police. Prosecute them for the rampant evidence tampering, falsifying documents, perjury (this one is huge and happens all the time), or even worse, collaborative perjury. None of that is prosecuted regularly enough to discourage this type of behavior.

Secondly, scale back the protections of their unions. Many police forces can't even get rid of the officers they're trying to fire. Between the endless arbitration and union rules, there's a good chance that the few who actually get fired will be reinstated. They're always given the benefit of the doubt and afforded substantially more rights than the general public.

I'm not against even against due process, and I'm a fairly pro-union person, but I feel like this insistence on adherence to fairness is misplaced when the vast majority of unfairness is being doled out by the police themselves, with relative impunity. I understand the reasoning behind suspension without pay while an investigation is pending, but when these investigations hardly ever go anywhere, I lose a lot of faith in the system. That's how it devolves into this cynicism about paid vacations for shooting innocent people.

Why is their due process so much more extensive than everyone else's due process, even among other union jobs? If that due process rarely leads to punishment, shouldn't that be an indicator of a flawed process? If I was on video at any other union job beating the shit out of someone, do you think I'd get suspended with pay? Or even without pay? Pretty sure I'd get fired, but maybe I'd get reinstated after my criminal proceedings were over.