@bobsal u1553115,
While I don't disagree with your point about reform of police forces itself, and I'd love to be wrong about this; I don't think you can get much, if any, meaningful reform of a police force without wider change in society itself - it seems to me to be "putting the cart before the horse".
In other words: I don't think you can divorce the two issues. As at the end of the day, members of the police force come
from society itself. Therefore their attitudes are
influenced by wider society. Not to mention the distrust among black people towards the police force - which doesn't just stop at the police force either.
Therefore, it would seem to me that, a change in wider society would make any reforms of the police much easier, and be far more likely to effect the change we are talking about. As this where our point of difference seems to be, rather than
what needs to happen to fix things.