Police should be community servants, clearly under community control, and using the community policing model. Daniels recalled that as the industrial revolution unfolded, huge numbers of peasants were thrown off the land in Great Britain in a policy called the Enclosures, in order to make way for the sheep industry, to fuel the growing textile industry. These peasants came into the cities where there was no work for them. Laws pertaining to vagrancy and loitering quickly became prevalent and the prisons were filled with poor people who had committed petty crimes under the law. These same people were then leased out to industries to work as cheap prison labor.
Many people have a vested interest in preserving the system.
Defining the police as community partners rather than an occupying army in poor neighborhoods will mean addressing several problems that prevail in the New York Police Department. Using the Bay Area Police Watch model, a method of recording and tracking police brutality complaints in the San Francisco Bay Area supported by specially designed computer software, CCR can collect and maintain independent data about cases of police brutality. CCR hopes eventually to replicate the Bay Area Police Watch model all over the country. A police brutality hotline gives community residents an opportunity to report instances of brutality within their neighborhoods. When brutality is brought to litigation, cases can be referred to the National Lawyers Guild for legal help.