How can police violence be prevented?

Massive protests in cities across the country in response to the death of George Floyd have once again brought the issue of police brutality into the national spotlight.

Outrage in response to excessive force by law enforcement has sparked some of the most turbulent events in modern American history, including unrest during the “long, hot summer” of 1967 and the Los Angeles riots in the early 1990s. More recently, the 2014 shooting of unarmed teenager Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo. — along with a long list of other deaths...