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There needs to be a thorough review of the social media and tattoos of all law enforcement in the US. Anyone with a hint of ties to the white supremacist militias or movements needs to be immediately fired. I’m hoping the Biden DoJ will issue a lot of consent decrees and thoroughly investigate every police agency in the country.

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It's pretty sad watching all the comments here calling this suggestion mccarthyism, witch hunt, etc. Police departments should be doing this and holding their employees to a high standard that's not a witch hunt that's common sense.

If you are a member of a violent gang or are too racist to police justly you are too dangerous to employ as a cop. Not looking for and removing these people is intentionally turning a blind eye to the extreme danger they present to people in their communities.

Because just calling for it does nothing. It’s clear that a top-down approach would be much more effective at solving systemic racism in law enforcement than a bottom-up one. The racists get witch-hunted and fired? Good. People being scared to be overtly racist is a good thing.

you know the goal is to deradicalize people, right?

When the East German police force was dissolved, its employees were allowed to apply for positions in the new police force (though without a guarantee of a position). Except for those with ties to the Stasi, who were barred. There is precedent for such an approach, and at least in that case it seems to have largely worked.

was this preceded by mass social and economic unrest and presided over by a government half the population views as illegitimate? good governance can bring the country back together, crackdowns, purges and retaliation will create the monster that you think is already there.

> was this preceded by mass social and economic unrest

Is this a joke?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Curtain#Fall_of_the_Iron_...

If the goal is to deradicalize then getting the radicals out of the police force seems like a great starting point, no?

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