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Here are a few ideas based upon my 55 years of experience in law enforcement and higher education:
Institute national standards for recruiting police, similar to what the FBI uses, so that regardless of where you are from, live, or work, the hiring requirements training, and professional expectations are the same.
Require an educational component for all law enforcement employment, with the minimum being a two-year associate’s degree for an entry-level position, and a bachelor’s degree by year five on the job.
Recruitment and background investigations must be done by an outside professional agency with no ties to the respective city. This lessens the possibility of nepotism and ensures assessments are totally independent.
Former Officer Derek Chauvin Found Guilty
By Betti Halsell, Contributing Writer
Published April 22, 2021
Faces 40 Years for the Death of George Floyd
“All it would have taken for Floyd to have survived that Memorial Day, was a little compassion and oxygen two things that Chauvin deprived him of,” Image : George Floyd (File Photo)
Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin has been charged with the murder of George Floyd. The jurors of the historical trial reached a verdict almost a month before the anniversary of Floyd’s untimely end on May 25, 2020.
On Monday, April 19, closing remarks were left by Special Assistant Attorney General Steve Schleicher. He went on for almost two hours, followed by an additional three-hour response from defense attorney Eric Nelson.
‘This Wasn’t Policing’: 6 Key Elements in Closing Arguments of Derek Chauvin Trial in George Floyd’s Death Alberto Luperon
Derek Chauvin, 44, in the death of
George Floyd, 46. As signaled throughout the trial, the state asserted that the defendant killed the victim by kneeling on his neck for 9 minutes and 29 seconds during a fateful arrest on May 25, 2020.
“This wasn’t policing,” said prosecutor
Steve Schleicher. “This was murder. The defendant is guilty of all three counts.”
Schleicher cited expert witnesses who said this was neither cardiac arrhythmia nor a heart attack, as well as a toxicologist who said this was not a drug overdose.
Five big moments the jury are now considering at Derek Chauvin s trial
As the country awaits the verdict of the murder trial of George Floyd, here are some of the most memorable moments from the case
20 April 2021 • 6:00am
Derek Chauvin s murder trial has been seen as one of America s most significant police brutality cases for several years, and much of the country is now bracing for what comes next.
Footage of the white ex-officer kneeling on the neck of George Floyd, an unarmed black man, as he repeatedly cried I can t breathe led to some of the largest civil rights protests the country has seen since the 1960s.