This article proposes a radical restructuring of United States
law enforcement policies, procedures, and applications in order
to address this critical challenge. After comparing some of the
nation’s most innovative police reform efforts, this article will
provide policymakers, legislators, officers, leaders, judges, and
lawyers the most effective reform efforts and best thinking that
have been implemented to date in connection with saving the
lives of residents who face danger from those trained to protect
and serve them. This article may serve as a signal to a potential
sea change in failed police practices that have endured for decades
in the United States.