"Puncturing the Impunity Requires Breaking the Link"

"Instituting systems like this in cities across the country wouldn't amount to a frontal assault on the vast racial disparities in communities like Ferguson. But it's a concrete goal—one that would give at least some vulnerable communities greater confidence that police wrongdoing will be investigated in an unbiased way. And it would put police on notice that their conduct will be subject to review by representatives of their communities who don't work hand in glove with them."


Brian Beutler in The New Republic recommends special prosecutors instead of local ones when investigating police violence.