One lesson of what's Camden done: successful police reform isn't just about training cops differently. You also have to have an explicit - and enforced - use-of-force policy, one that prohibits them from using force cavalierly and pushes them to de-escalate whenever possible.
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Camden's use-of-force policy is 18 pages of detailed description of when force is reasonable and when it isn't. It explicitly says officers "will be" - not can be, but will be - disciplined for violating the policy, and it requires cops to report uses of force that do so.
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That doesn't mean all cops obey the policy. But one thing we know from decades of research is that tougher rules on the use of force do make a difference, when they are written down and when departments do more than pay lip service to them. And that's the case in Camden.
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Interestingly though to get there they had to dissolve the old department and stand up a new one from scratch.
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Yeah, it's a little complicated, because the dissolution of the dept wasn't really motivated by a desire to do better policing, and a lot of the cops who were in the old dept were rehired. But it definitely made it easier for Thomson to change the way things were done.
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In Flint, the sheriff marched with protesters as well today. Calmed it all down.
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It prevents further escalation. I mean, it's kinda in the name 'de-escalation' so this wasn't a very tough one.
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Needed some hope tonight. Thanks.
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Exactly! There’s hope!
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