article_snippet: Typically it doesn't work when you have to police yourself," said Mel Robbins, a CNN legal analyst who has began her career as a New York City public defender and now practices criminal law for Legal Aid Criminal Defense Society.
article_snippet: Having laws that require an outside agency to investigate would actually help police and prosecutors," her said.
article_snippet: To begin to address that, these laws are needed.
article_snippet: For the first time we are seeing minorities coming to political power in large U.S. cities and getting to the point where minorities can elect African-American or Hispanic district attorneys," he said.
article_snippet: In the end you could have minorities deprived of power and not treated fairly by the system.
article_snippet: After the deaths of Brown and Garner, President Barack Obama announced the "Task Force on 21st Century Policing," aimed at strengthening trust between communities and officers and identifying which practices can be improved.
article_snippet: The importance of making sure that the sense of accountability when, in fact, law enforcement is involved in a deadly shooting is something that I think communities across the board are going to need to consider," President Barack Obama said.
article_snippet: We have a great opportunity, coming out of some great conflict and tragedy, to really transform how We think about community law enforcement relations so that everybody feels safer and We law enforcement officers feel, rather than being embattled, feel fully supported.