Camden, over the past 5 yrs, has invested heavily in de-escalation training and adopted a use-of-force policy that's been called the most progressive in the U.S., one that stresses that force should only be used as a last resort. This is one result of that. https://twitter.com/Goodable/status/1266890446669840385

One lesson of what's Camden done: successful police reform isn't just about training cops differently. You also have to have an explicit - and enforced - use-of-force policy, one that prohibits them from using force cavalierly and pushes them to de-escalate whenever possible.

Camden's use-of-force policy is 18 pages of detailed description of when force is reasonable and when it isn't. It explicitly says officers "will be" - not can be, but will be - disciplined for violating the policy, and it requires cops to report uses of force that do so.

That doesn't mean all cops obey the policy. But one thing we know from decades of research is that tougher rules on the use of force do make a difference, when they are written down and when departments do more than pay lip service to them. And that's the case in Camden.