Well said! You’ve exposed the beating heart of the problem in excruciating, plain detail.

Now the question is, how can the surgeons go in and fix it? I don’t think too many Americans believe the status quo is okay. But cultural and political inertia stand in the way of a real cure.

Even after the summer of 2020, reports of police brutality keep popping up, most but not all of them directed against Black people.

We keep hearing the same thing from police departments and police unions: the officers were doing their jobs as they were trained. Recently, after cops brutalized a child in Rochester, New York, an assistant commissioner of police immediately stated the officers' actions were “required” by police policy.

The department later walked that statement back, but the Rochester police union doubled down.

So what do we the people do when police brutality really is mandated by their training?