Criminalize Criminalizing People
Politically: Crimes should be egregious things like murder, rape, violence, and theft.
Morally: Removing everyone from society that you disagree with is insane.
Structurally: For profit prisons must be illegal. The state is removing someone from society. The state should handle it. It should also be very transparent to ensure inmate safety. IE public streams in common areas. I hope flash dance mobs will occur more often than public violence.
Training: All law enforcement officials need remedial communication training. First and foremost, calling all citizens and inmates sir/ma'am.
Incarceration: If incarceration must happen, make it beneficial to the inmate so they re-enter society long term. I have no idea how to accomplish this. I'd assume there are consultants. Food must be offered that is at least 1500 calories daily of locally-sourced non-processed food and offerings must include vegetarian options.
Capital Punishment: Just no. In any case. Ever.
Equipment: All baseline officers must be disarmed of any projectile weapons and undergo the aforementioned remedial communication training. Officers entering an encounter armed, armored, and enforcing 2 million laws; approach the citizen with bad spirit. This must change, and will take years. S.W.A.T. should be the lone exception, used for those special cases.
WTF Moment: Nashville has these social workers who ride around on segues. I dislike them because motorized vehicles on the sidewalk annoy me. However, I think having a front line of yellow clad disarmed dorks on an unstable platform, instead of cops with guns in patrol cars, makes any initial encounter less confrontational. Likely it's part of why Nashville is awesome. The deliverable here is that I always derided social workers until seeing it in action. This is me saying I was wrong on this political issue and have changed my opinion since moving.
#ACAB: Since adding the above WTF moment, I've noticed several new yellow shirts in my area. They behave like cops too. Then the homeless dudes I chill with sometimes told me they're undercover cops. So, they're deliberately using taxpayer money to lie to and destroy their citizens. You can't hate all government workers enough. Publicly scorn a government worker every day. If you don't, you're a bitch.
Caveats: I love "The Princess Bride." In that movie, the villain tortures the hero by taking away a year of his life as the most evil thing he can do. Modern politicians inflict that same torture, or more, over non-violent facebook posts. Some states, if a police officer stops you on the street and asks for your ID, you can do 6 months in prison if you say no.
