Fire all the cops and start over. Like the mayor of Rochester, NY, just did today.

[StrictlyRockers]

Link to tweet

After days of protests in Rochester over the killing of Daniel Prude, mayor Lovely Warren just announced that the entire Rochester police department command staff, including the chief of police, is resigning.

[samnsara]

1. wow..great idea!

[SpaceNeedle]

2. Just removing and replacing the command staff is not enough

The whole tree needs to be removed, roots and all and a new tree planted.

Also, police academies need to change the curriculum to include diversity training and serious psychological evaluations of all applicants before admission.

[ProfessorGAC]

3. Not How This Reads

They resigned, but the mayor said he was not asked to resign. Also, a different article used the word "retired".
So, the mayor didn't fire them.

https://www.npr.org/sections/live-updates-protests-for-racial-justice/2020/09/08/910791494/rochester-police-chief-laron-singletary-resigns

[mr_lebowski]

4. Somewhat tempering to my enthusiasm ...

“As a man of integrity, I will not sit idly by while outside entities attempt to destroy my character,” the police chief said in a statement. He later added: “The mischaracterization and the politicization of the actions that I took after being informed of Mr. Prude’s death is not based on facts, and is not what I stand for.” said Singletary.

"Mr. Singletary was promoted to chief last year after serving 19 years with the department. Just 38 years old at the time, he was among the youngest police chiefs in the city’s history."

Chief La'Ron Singletary is African American.

[Grins]

5. So block their pensions, then.

Police and fire have AMAZING pension plans. It’s a major reason they take the hazards of the job and can retire after 20-years with a fat pension and then double dip at another job and get even more money.

Probably won’t happen as article says they resigned vs. fired, but look into it.

[beachbumbob]

6. nothing stops investigation and finding they all did participate in a coverup, bam, no more

pensions

[PaDemocrat]

7. This is not the answer..

Firing the police is not the answer, reforming it is..

[empedocles]

8. Yes

[PSPS]

10. In most cases, it's the only answer. Because of unions

Police unions are horribly corrupt and festooned with white supremacists. Here's how to take care of it:

Dissolve the police department. Everyone is "fired" but invited to reapply to the replacement police department which has no union contract. Those that don't want to reapply are most of the ones you don't want around anyway. Those that do reapply are properly vetted before hiring to weed out the freaks, mental cases, anyone with a history of complaints, nazis, steroid users, etc.

[cwydro]

9. It took her what, six months, to catch on to this wrongful death?

She’s trying to save her own job.

[Hangingon]

12. Maybe the mayor and city council should retire also.

[cwydro]

13. She and the police chief were aware of this.

They’re all culpable.

They sure had nothing to say about it until the video came out.

[RhodeIslandOne]

11. Yeah.....that's not exactly what happened. n/m