I think it'd also be productive to have community education on your rights and responsibilities with police.
You have rights, you don't have to do anything outside the law. But you do have to comply with lawful orders. If everybody understood these things, there would be much less trouble, fear, and violence.
Agreed! We should start by teaching police what lawful orders they're actually able to give, prevent them from lying about their powers and individuals' rights, and putting the ones who do intimidate people into relinquishing their rights in prison.
I think this falls into better education of the public, many times these incidents arise because people try to argue their case with the officer but the officer is not the judge nor the jury. Trying to argue your case with a belligerent officer is only going to serve their purpose. Whereas if people know that have an absolute right to remain silent and exercise that right, they will be better served, especially if the officer is issuing unlawful orders / abusing power. If the officer thinks you are guilty, you cannot talk your way out of jail, but you can certainly give them more ammo to charge you with. e.g Resisting, Obstruction charges.
Other than undercover cops being able to lie to cover their background, the fact that police can -- legally! ruled so by the supreme court! -- lie to citizens is a real problem.
How are citizens supposed to trust police that can freely lie to them without consequence?
and putting the ones who do intimidate people into relinquishing their rights in prison
Are you saying if a cop is interrogating someone and says "I know you did this, if you don't talk you're going to prison for a long time", we should send that cop to prison?
That would be intimidating a person into relinquishing their rights.
You have rights, you don't have to do anything outside the law. But you do have to comply with lawful orders. If everybody understood these things, there would be much less trouble, fear, and violence.