How To Deal With Police Brutality

This seems smart to me:

Four police officers who were caught on video beating three suspects in a drug-related triple shooting will be fired, Police Commissioner Charles H. Ramsey said Monday.
Three other officers have been suspended, Commissioner Ramsey said at a news conference, and one officer has been demoted.

As some of you know, I think we need to take a new approach to police brutality cases. I think making prosecution the highpoint of an attempt to punish cops gone thug, or cops simply gone negligent is the sort of strategy that leads to community disappointment, mostly because people are loath to convict cops. I'm not saying that cops shouldn't be prosecuted--these guys especially should be--but to me the more important factor, the more forward-thinking concern, is getting these bums off the streets and removing their right to police my son. At the very least, they have forfeited that.