Saw a piece on police training in the US today, somewhere. Apparently there are several problems: with 18,000 organizations there's no uniformity (and no national database to record bad cops); training in the US is a lot shorter than in Europe; the training they get doesn't cover some of the key issues. Another problem is lack of money--the emphasis is getting bodies on the street.
All this leads me to this suggestion:
- provide federal money to local police force
- make the money available only to expand the training and cover some of the missing areas
- record those who receive federally funded training in a database, and track their careers--do they do better than their peers/predecessors, etc. Publicize the results, presumably good, to pressure the organizations which don't take advantage of the money.
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