🌱 Addressing Police Brutality
Andrew Yang looking for data backed approaches to solve unneeded death and financial waste of current policing practices.
Issues
- ~ 3 americans die a day from police
- $1 billion a year in lawsuits on police misconduct
new recruits received an average of 58 hours on shooting a gun and using deadly force and only 8 hours on de-escalating violence
Proposed solutions
- better training
- tracking complaints
- unpair officers that have history of excessive force
- eliminate restrictions on officer accountability held by police unions
- scale other organizations to help with mental illness, substance abuse, and homelessness
- federal oversight on departments
- demilitarization