Here in Illinois, police officers just dodged a huge legislative bullet and apparently have learned nothing from it. 

Very stringent legislation was drafted in the Illinois Congress that at first included the removal of collective bargaining and qualified immunity for Illinois police officers.  At the last minute, those two parts were removed.  (There were other parts just as drastic that may have been removed, but I'm not sure.  One was an allowance to use all complaints whether founded or not in the application of discipline and another one was to allow anonymous complaints).

Now, I'm not sure why the collective bargaining and qualified immunity parts were dropped (possibly because attorneys may have suggested those parts were unconstitutional or because our Democratic governor was persuaded such parts would possibly hurt all labor issues in the future).

But my main point is, that ALL of the major law enforcement agencies, administrators, police union officials, and police representatives, should have seen this legislation with great concern and done something about it such as telling themselves, "Listen, if we do not do a better job policing ourselves, then this is what we are going to face in the future."

Police officials MUST initiate their own reforms that do acknowledge these serious problems in an effective and truly sincere manner and quickly.   Sadly, I do not think they are going to do so. 

Even sadder, just a few days after this there was another police killing of an unarmed mentally ill Black man after the family called for mental health assistance.