A simple democratic tool will give people the basic democratic dignity of getting to choose who polices their communities.
"All cops are bastards." That's not as bad as it sounds, really - lots of people are bastards. Many of my friends are bastards. I can be a bit of a bastard myself.
I'm not, however, a sadistic psychopath. Bastards, sure, but not all cops are sadistic psychopaths, either - but there are thousands of them all over the country. They sit at the very center of America's police oppression problem - the Bully Cops.
When I say the Bully Cop, you all immediately know exactly who I mean. I've met a few in my life, maybe you have too. If you haven't, consider yourself lucky, but you've certainly seen them in any of the shaky cell-phone videos showing the brutal, murderous police violence that we all know familiarly, but never get used to.
They're the particular type of people who are attracted to the job for all of the wrong reasons. They don't want to improve their commu