[AnotherUnixGeek]

1. Strengthen the selection process and psychological screening process for police recruits. Police departments are simply a microcosm of the greater society. If your screening standards encourage corrupt and forceful tendencies, you will end up with a larger concentration of these types of individuals;

To all of these sensible guidelines you've suggested, I'd add one more - require on-duty law enforcement to wear some sort of video recording equipment to record in a loop the last 30 minutes of whatever the officer does on duty. It would protect innocent police officers who must fire their weapons or use other violence in the line of duty from politicized charges, and it would protect citizens from the excesses of the (hopefully) few law enforcement officers who decide to abuse their authority.

If the officer in Missouri had been wearing such a device, there could be no differing viewpoints and no conflicting expert testimony on the Mike Brown shooting.

[T-Bone Texan]

To you wise comment:

"...I'd...require on-duty law enforcement to wear some sort of video recording equipment to record in a loop the last 30 minutes..."

I say "not enough". There should be no way for the officer to disable the camera. If the camera is not recording, the officer does not work that day.

Also, there needs to be a real-time data uplink.

Also, at least an entire shift of recording time. If the cop makes comments beforehand I want to know about it, like the cop in Arizona who stated hours before shooting a homeless guy that he planned on "shooting him in the penis". (he then murdered the guy).