Camden, over the past 5 yrs, has invested heavily in de-escalation training and adopted a use-of-force policy that& #39;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">https://twitter.com/Goodable/...

One lesson of what& #39;s Camden done: successful police reform isn& #39;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& #39;s use-of-force policy is 18 pages of detailed description of when force is reasonable and when it isn& #39;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& #39;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& #39;s the case in Camden.