I wonder what percent of the time that a police officer does something like this do they get away with it because there is no evidence to show what really happened. I also wonder how often these things occur in the United States. Every day? Every week? Every hour? Twice a month?
I propose that we ask congress, when we get control of it back from the republicans, to create a Federal Department of Civil Rights and a Civil Rights Enforcement Agency modeled after the FBI and the Drug Enforcement Agency whose job would be to look for civil rights among law enforcement. They should have the authority to investigate any law enforcement agency using both overt and covert means. They should put undercover agents inside of police departments across the country to document cases of racism, police brutality, and other civil rights violations. The federal department could also have some other agency that deals with civil legal cases similar to what the ACLU does.
