Abstract
In July, the "Coping with Covid" series shifted attention from one pandemic to another: the plague of excessive force by police officers. The state law and the Constitution do not require you to tactically reposition, do not require you to create distance, do not require you to move out of the way of a moving car. [...]I think that that third prong has to be embedded like Mayor Lightfoot was talking about, and you have to reward and celebrate that third prong when we save lives because we chose not to deploy deadly force even though we were authorized under the Constitution and criminal law and under our policy. [...]whether it's a zoning board or nuclear energy or environment, anything that government does, there's a model of governance that sort of falls apart around policing, and that's the thing that we need to focus on thinking about.