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Police Brutality: How Do We Solve It?

     N ever before since the Civil Rights era have demonstrations relating to racism, prejudice, and discrimination within the United States been on the scale that the George Floyd protests are on. These protests have even sparked protests in other countries across the globe; although those are a bit redundant, as the issue that started these protests only afflict the United States. At the core of these protests, at least in their original form, was a plea to once and for all address and solve police brutality within the United States. Many have debated and asked, “How exactly do we solve police brutality? What does it require?” Is police brutality a problem we even have known methods to combat and use? Well, the answer is actually yes, we do, and the solution involves a combination of community policing, transparency, and demilitarization.             There is no doubt that the police in the United States have a problem with violence and misconduct. In the United States, the amount