POLICE REFORMS IN AMERICA AFTER THE GEORGE FLOYD KILLING

  • 30/04/2021

Police reforms in Europe and America are understood as the process of making the police less brutal in their methods of enforcing law, especially on minorities. In India, police reforms at the state level mean freeing them from politicians' control. For our Opposition-ruled states, it means stopping forays by central police agencies with political intent to destabilize their governments.

The series of incidents beginning with the George Floyd killing, ending with the trial and conviction of Derek Michael Chauvin, a 45-year-old White Minneapolis police officer on April 20 , 2021, by a 12-member multi-racial jury could be considered as a watershed incident in the police reforms movement in USA. Chauvin's sentencing is on June 25 .

This incident also reveals under what exacting conditions the police are working in some US cities, including facing racial tensions within their own department and non-cooperation from police unions. Yet what saves them from such crises is the strict rule of law, transparency, functional autonomy without political interference and support from the public and media.

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