Opinion: Police accountability is essential for improving relations between cops and the public
Especially as crime has increased in many cities the past two years, Americans want safe streets, but with responsible policing. They don’t want to get mugged, but also don’t want abuses such as the beating of Rodney King by the LAPD in 1992 or the death of George Floyd in the custody of Minneapolis police in 2020.
McNamara especially opposed the militarization of police, including the overuse of SWAT teams and even armored-personnel carriers. After Michael Brown was killed by officer Darren Wilson in 2014 in Ferguson, Mo., McNamara wrote police must “recalibrate current militarization policies, in which officer safety is paramount. The fundamental police duty is protection of life. Officer safety should never supersede democratic policing….
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