Policing in America
What Jon Stewart is saying here is absolutely true, which is why it’s both stupid and insulting when the Blue Lives Matter people say that progressives hate cops.
No, we don’t. We simply want them to stop murdering unarmed black people.
The US needs mechanisms similar to the UK Independent Police Complaints Commission.
In the UK, when an allegation is made of misconduct by a police officer, it is not down to that officer’s police department to investigate the allegation, but rather a separate investigating body with robust powers to investigate the police.
To a considerable degree, this prevents complaints being dismissed without proper investigation, or the kind of closing of ranks which often happens in the US when complaints are I understand often investigated in the precinct of the officers against whom the complaint is made!
Not saying our system is perfect, but it is I believe substantially less prone to “letting police officers get away with murder” – both figuratively and literally
I completely agree. Wish that were the way in the U.S.