we brought you that case earlier. it never gets easier to watch. police admitted in that instance, it was a case of mistaken identity. they apologized in public and legally, that s what these cases typically end in, but here s a model for some change that occurred in real life. colorado, one of four states that limited immunity. there s more room to sue, alleging racism among other things. the only reason is because she has lived in a place with reformed police immunity in the past year. that s one of the sticking points for republicans opposing the george floyd act which did pass the house but stuck in the senate. those are some policy implications. what we do know is that this shooting rate remains steady with a disproportionate numbers of minorities shot or killed by
departments often hide them, in one study, the majority of incidents caught on body cameras were never released by police. some of these reforms won t work very well if they still depend on the original issue here in american policing, which, again, not every country does it this way on the premise that police should just police themselves. that brings me to a third and final point. some reforms do have an impact, when they assert truly independent authority over police. reforms to patrol the police works better if someone other than the police have control of what happens. that s why citizen videos have an immediate impact. police do not have control with them in the first place. the video of george floyd s murder went viral swiftly, so fast that police were still stupidly falsely claiming that floyd died in a medical incident. a cover story shredded by the public video. people forced facts into the system that otherwise would never have come to light. same goes for reforms where inde