Why Cops Should Support Police Reforms

Police departments across the country suddenly find themselves facing the justifiable threat of losing substantial amounts of taxpayer funding.

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Whenever the conversation of law enforcement reforms picks up steam, as it has many times in the past, police unions step in attempting to change the narrative. Where they have succeeded in the past, they may not succeed this time. The American public has become keenly aware of what police unions do, and what they are responsible for — including the consistent interventions during the investigations of police misconduct and murder.

After years of attempting to have meaningful discussions about police reforms including all parties, we are now left with no other option than to seek out the help of city and state leaders to entertain the idea of large-scale police reform. Naturally, when police unions hear the words “police reform” they jump on it with their propaganda template to build their case against it.

One thing is certain, “police reform” does not mean abolish the police, however, it can mean tearing down the current structure of policing and modernizing it. Let’s face it, in 2020, we shouldn’t be running our law enforcement apparatus in the same way the U.S. did when it gave white folks the right to police black people in America. The notion of abolishing that specific culture of…