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Counterplan AnswersReform Counterplan AnswersAll reforms, including civilian review boards, have failedThe Internationalist, Summer 2015, Killer Cops, White Supremacists: Racist Terror Talks Strike Black America, http://www.internationalist.org/killercopswstalkblackamerica1507.html DOA: 10-2-16 Over the last several decades any number of supposed reforms have been tried and all have failed to even put a dent in the rampant racist police terror. Demilitarize the police? Akai Gurley, Tanish Anderson, Tamir Rice, Walter Scott, and most of those murdered by police have been killed by one or two cops on regular patrol. Disarm the police? Impossible in racist capitalist America, but beyond that, Eric Garner and 20 years earlier Anthony Baez were killed by a cop’s bare hands. Dashboard cameras on police cars? When Walter Scott was pulled over in North Charleston on April 4 for a supposed broken taillight, the dashcam showed no such thing – but it didn’t stop him from getting shot in the back and killed by the racist cop. Body cameras on police officers? This is the latest fad. It didn’t stop the shooting of Eric Harris in Tulsa, Oklahoma on April 2, which was recorded by a bodycam, including the remark by the 73-year-old “reserve” cop that he thought he was firing a Taser. A new police chief? Under Republican plutocrat Bloomberg New York had Ray Kelly, under liberal Democrat de Blasio it has Bill Bratton, but the killing doesn’t stop. And now the liberal Democratic City Council has voted to hire 1,300 more cops than under Bloomberg/Kelly. A black police chief? A black mayor? Philadelphia has both, and its “stop and frisk” numbers rival New York’s. More black police? In the case of Baltimore, on top of a black mayor and police chief, almost half the cops are black, but both black and white officers were guilty of Freddie Gray’s murder. New police policies? “Stop and frisk” is now officially “reformed,” so now it’s back to “broken windows” – harassing black and Latino youth for minor “quality of life” infractions. Residency requirements? Instead of holing up in white suburbs like Walnut Creek, California or New York’s Rockland County, police will just congregate in cop enclaves like Howard Beach or Eltingville on Staten Island’s South Shore. Community policing? So instead of patrolling poor black and Latino areas in convoys, like Israeli occupation forces in the Palestinian West Bank, they will increase the number of cops in permanent outposts while assigning a few community relations officers to coordinate with church leaders … and the SWAT teams are held in reserve. Civilian review boards? NYC, Philly and Baltimore all have them, and they’re not only utterly worthless in controlling police violence, they actually serve to legitimize it. A recent article reviewing the experience of civilian review boards noted that this demand going back to the 1950s and ’60s was “sold by liberal reformers as a sort of societal ‘safety valve’ to prevent civil unrest” (Charles Davis, “America’s historic struggle to control its police,” Salon, 25 February). While right-wingers slammed such toothless boards as a communist plot to undermine America, in Philadelphia, which had a review board, then abolished it in 1969, the “police advisory board” was brought back in 1994 as a way to save the city millions of dollars by preventing complaints from going to court. In New York City, where use of the chokehold has supposedly been banned since 1993, the civilian board received over 1,000 complaints of its use from 2009 to 2013 (New York Times, 22 July 2014). Only nine cases were raised with the NYPD brass and in only one case was there any action (loss of vacation days). More training and more rules of engagement won’t solveThe Internationalist, Summer 2015, Killer Cops, White Supremacists: Racist Terror Talks Strike Black America, http://www.internationalist.org/killercopswstalkblackamerica1507.html DOA: 10-2-16 The Justice League NYC, a project of The Gathering for Justice, Inc., one of the foundation-funded “non-governmental organizations” (NGOs) that quickly became involved in the protests over police killings, put forward a list of demands including calls for the city and state of New York to “draft legislation to clarify the rules of engagement” and to “create a comprehensive NYPD training program”—as if more training or clearer rules would have prevented the use of the deadly chokehold on Eric Garner which was already against NYPD regulations. As for its call on U.S. attorney general Eric Holder and the Obama administration to “expedite the federal investigation into the death of Eric Garner,” Holder’s “investigation” of Ferguson exonerated the cop who killed Michael Brown! Oregon proves training programs workRobert Hennelly, May 13, 2015, Slate, Poisonous Cops, Total Immunity: Why an epidemic of police abuse is actually going unpunished, http://www.salon.com/2015/05/13/poisonous_cops_total_immunity_why_an_epidemic_of_police_abuse_is_actually_going_unpunished/ Stringer’s ClaimStat webpage cites Portland, Oregon’s, police department as an example of an agency that used their settlement data to effect meaningful and timely reforms. He explained: “[W]hen the police auditor observed a pattern of claims that suggesting that officers did to understand the basis to enter a home without a warrant, the City Attorney’s office made a training video on the issue, and the problem practically disappeared.” Body Cameras Counterplan AnswersBody cameras work when coupled with limiting immunityThe American Conservative, July 2, 2014, http://www.theamericanconservative.com/2014/07/02/seven-reasons-police-brutality-is-systematic-not-anecdotal/ Coupled with additional reforms, like making officers pay their own settlements and providing better training for dealing with pets, camera use could produce a significant decrease in police misconduct. It is not unrealistic to think that police brutality reports could be made far more unusual—but only once we acknowledge that it’s not just a few bad apples. 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