Step one to police reform: Weeding out bad cops

Published August 17, 2017 4:01am ET



It should be obvious by now that body cameras are not the sole answer to preventing bad police behavior. That’s because they don’t solve a problem that is far more common in police departments than many people think: unfit officers who are a threat to the public, to other cops, and indeed to themselves.

These weak cops, who are probably present in every department in America, need to be identified early and weeded out of police service.

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