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Re:Santa Cruz, California bans predictive policing in U.S. f... by stx on Friday June 26, 2020 @08:13PM (#23658423)
I think the answer is to filter police who may have tendency to violence and racism out of the police force. There have been police who violate rights and the police departments keep them on even after the department or city pays huge settlements.

From my understanding police are able to leave departments and not necessarily have their complaint history follow them to new departments. So if they have racked up complaints then they could move to a new department and essentially have a clean record.

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Re:Santa Cruz, California bans predictive policing in U.S. f... by thaumasiotes on Saturday June 27, 2020 @05:51AM (#23660695)
> I think the answer is to filter police who may have tendency to violence and racism out of the police force.

If this solution ended up filtering out most black police, would racism be more or less of a problem than it is now?

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Re:Santa Cruz, California bans predictive policing in U.S. f... by rootusrootus on Friday June 26, 2020 @10:19PM (#23658999)
In the US, I believe the majority of states license law enforcement personnel so they couldn't easily move to another department.
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