YES! The entire force should be fired and replaced!
82%
NO! Those responsible have already been terminated.
18%
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The Chief should be fired, and replaced as well.
I agree that the Chief should be fired, and I think the entire police, Fire Departments, EMS, and local government needs to go through some sort of racial senstivity training. By the same token, I think the community leaders and pastors (especially of the black churches) need to go through a similar program to understand what the police, EMS, and Fire Department go through. We looked at crime, the justice system, gangs, education, and economic factors, and race. One big take away was the racial sensitivity works both ways.
Several years ago, we were having similar problems. As a result, the Mayor's office organzied a police violance and racial sensitivity study which included all the local community leaders, police, Fire Departments leaders, EMS, select Metro department heads, and select community activists. I was invited to attend. Both sides got to air their side, and both sides got to offer their solutions, and from that, we attempted to find commonmground. It worked for almost a decade. I think it's time we need to revist that here, and perhaps in Ferguson and elsewhere.