FF.
The vast majority of police officers are good people, yet there are too many regressive leftists who want to argue otherwise. There are some police departments that are bad (Baltimore and Ferguson come to mind), but they can (and will) be made good with proper reform. Even so, Charlottesville is not anything like Baltimore in this sense.
For me, I think the left-wing position is to be in favor of increasing policeman salaries (as they are workers in their own sense), while also enacting policies such as required body camera usage for dangerous operations and accurate vetting that eliminates the ~5% of officers that are bad people.
Exactly this. I consider myself to be significantly to the left of most Americans, and I've sided firmly with BLM over the years, but the fact of the matter is this: law enforcement (at least, competent law enforcement; no case can be made to defend the Darren Wilsons, Joe Arpaios, and David Clarkes of the world) is a basic necessity for any functioning society.
Better salaries and better training are the way forward. I can't believe I'm unironically suggesting this, but America could do with taking a few notes from Utah's book when it comes to training police officers to deescalate volatile situations, rather than immediately resorting to deadly force.
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