[disgu]

I'm sorry, but this sounds like someone who has never been to another country or seen how police works in other countries. I'm of course talking about comparable western countries (which are all way safer than the US, I believe). Instead of looking how the police could be improved you really think it's the people who interact with police?

It doesn't have anything to do with the lousy few weeks of training police get? The fact that they're often uneducated, the fact that bad behavior goes unpunished and everything else that is wrong with the US' system? It's the people?

[slowhand09]

I've been to Germany, Austria, England, Mexico, most of the Caribbean. What I've observed in other countries is a general higher level of civility and respect for police. People don't curse at them, generally. And police typically don't put up with what US police often do. You want the police to improve. I want society to improve. That includes the police. And improvement doesn't mean teaching everybody to whip out a cellphone to try and catch an officer not being perfect.