14-year-old Parkview High School Freshman Caleb Christian and Parkview High School senior, Ima Christian have developed an app where you can rate your local law enforcement agency and can report police misconduct. The advertisement YouTube video for the app is embedded below.
This is precisely the kind of innovation that we need to help curb the ever-growing police invasions into individual rights and to curb excessive force and police brutality claims that continue to be on the rise.
While the City of Atlanta has proposed that all law enforcement officers wear digital video cameras to capture all encounters with the public, and I think that is a great idea, this app is a way for the common man to hold law enforcement accountable without increasing the cost of police services. It’s a private sector solution to a long-standing problem of what to do about law enforcement officers that overstep their authority and violate the rights of the common man.
It reminds me of my favorite Louis Brandeis quote:
“Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman.”
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