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Rachel Harmon: belief

17 Jun 2020 Conversations with Tyler Rachel Harmon on Policing

“I think setting up some national standards so that we not only have a federal intervention in making police more effective or federal intervention in suing police departments and prosecuting police officers, but national standards for ensuring that policing is actually beneficial, that we’re harm minimizing, that it’s fair, and that it’s authorized by local communities.”

— Rachel Harmon

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Rachel Harmon
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Claim type
belief
Recorded
17 Jun 2020
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Conversations with Tyler

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…There are other countries that are very different. An extreme example would be Norway. I’m not saying we can be like Norway, right? We’re a very different country. But if you’re Rachel Harmon, dictator of all matters police, and you’re allowed to make one change that will last after you’re gone, what would that be? I think setting up some national standards so that we not only have a federal intervention in making police more effective or federal intervention in suing police departments and prosecuting police officers, but national standards for ensuring that policing is actually beneficial, that we’re harm minimizing, that it’s fair, and that it’s authorized by local communities. Given that we do operate policing the way we do, which is in lots and lots of departments, having some shared national standards, the way England does it, might help a lot, even if we continue to organize policing the way we do. If a department doesn’t meet those standards, do you take away money, put them into receivership, something else? What do you do?…

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