"Excessive Force Is Common in This Country"

"But here are a few measures, beyond video cameras, that would improve policing:

Decisions about when to charge officers should be made by independent prosecutors, not regular district attorneys, who rely on police to testify in most of the cases they bring. That gives these district attorneys a perverse incentive to refrain from aggressively prosecuting misconduct.

Police unions should be able to negotiate salary, benefits, and nothing else. Firing an abusive police officer should be easy.

All police departments should have strong civilian oversight.

The War on Drugs should end.

Most military-grade police equipment should be returned to the federal government or destroyed.

Civil asset forfeiture should be reformed.

No-knock raids should stop in almost all cases."

Conor Friedersdorf at The Atlantic calls for police reform.