There is a fix to it. Elect people who will hold them accountable.
As long as you keep electing clowns that let the police do whatever they want, the police will... Do whatever they want.
As long as you keep electing clowns that let the police do whatever they want, the police will... Do whatever they want.
Of course there's a balance that has to be struck so that police are empowered enough to act. So perhaps something like settlements against the police being 30% borne by the police pension fund and 70% by taxpayers is sufficient. I think this will also make police very enthusiastic about bodycams and holding each other accountable.
I'm not sure what the solution is here. Forbid police from unionizing? That would probably have some bad consequences too.
it sucks.
No, everybody does not want police accountability. Half the population will fall on a grenade to prevent that. They know that the purpose of the police is to keep the undesirables in line, and they never envision that they will ever fall in that category.
The brutality is the point for them.
The problem is that the mass media sets the framing of acceptable discourse, and that mass media is in large part an ideological monoculture. And even when it's not, it is happy to present absolutely insane batshit lunacy as 'one of the two sides' of an issue.