--- title: How to Start Reducing Police Racism and Violence description: How to reduce police racism and violence, why sharing passwords shouldn't be a crime and more. canonical: https://time.com/4402565/reducing-police-racism-and-violence/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-07-12T16:00:56.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:59:47.285Z article:section: Ideas og:title: How to Start Reducing Police Racism and Violence og:description: These are today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4402565/reducing-police-racism-and-violence/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: How to Start Reducing Police Racism and Violence twitter:description: These are today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # How to Start Reducing Police Racism and Violence by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jul 12, 2016 4:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jul 12, 2016 4:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**We already know how to start reducing police racism and violence.**](http://www.yesmagazine.org/people-power/cities-have-the-power-to-reduce-police-racism-and-violence) By Kate Stringer in Yes **2\.** [**Sharing passwords shouldn’t be a crime.**](http://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-07-06/using-shared-passwords-shouldn-t-be-a-crime) By Noah Feldman in Bloomberg View **3\.** [**Scientists have restored sight to blind mice.**](http://time.com/4399255/mice-blindness-cure/) By Alice Park in Time **4\.** [**Americans should stop eating dessert for breakfast.**](http://www.vox.com/2016/7/11/12128372/sugar-cereal-breakfast-nutrition-facts) By Julia Belluz and Javier Zarracina in Vox **5\.** [**Here’s how craft brewing is advancing science.**](http://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/how-craft-brewers-advance-science-and-make-better-beer) By Russell Shorto in the New Yorker  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4402565/reducing-police-racism-and-violence/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4402565/reducing-police-racism-and-violence/"},"headline":"How to Start Reducing Police Racism and Violence","datePublished":"2016-07-12T16:00:56.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:59:47.285Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4402565/reducing-police-racism-and-violence/","keywords":["Innovation","Beer","Netflix","police","breakfast","blindness"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/innovation/","name":"Innovation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4402565/reducing-police-racism-and-violence/","name":"How to Start Reducing Police Racism and Violence"}}]}] ```