Naive question, but what are the most important concrete asks floating around about police reform. I’m familiar with bail/jail/discovery/decriminalization asks, but less so with how people want to change the actual police force. Camera’s used to be the biggie.
Like, is it just to lower the legal barrier on police prosecutions? Is it to empower civilian review boards to unilaterally fire? Obviously the goal is less state-sanctioned violence, but what’s the route there?
I have so far gotten a bunch of interesting, enlightening answers here.

Defunding the police seems like the most popular and potentially least effective, unfortunately. But maybe a good slogan to exert political pressure? I dunno.
One thing I will say: It’d be nice if Democratic politicians were as willing to square off with police unions today as they were to fight teacher unions in the 2000s. (Not saying the latter* was good.)

*important typo fixed
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