--- title: Five Best Ideas: How To Fix The American Cop description: How to fix the American cop, is ending anonymity really the key to restoring civility online and more. canonical: https://time.com/4623638/how-to-fix-the-american-cop/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-01-05T17:45:44.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:59:12.324Z article:section: Ideas og:title: How To Fix The American Cop og:description: These are today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4623638/how-to-fix-the-american-cop/ 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 Fix The American Cop 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 Fix The American Cop by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jan 5, 2017 5:45 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jan 5, 2017 5:45 PM UTC **1\.** [**How to fix the American cop.**](http://theweek.com/articles/670635/how-fix-american-cop) By Ryan Cooper in _The Week_ **2\.** [**Is ending anonymity really the key to restoring civility online?**](https://blog.coralproject.net/the-real-name-fallacy) By J.Nathan Matias at the Coral Project **3\.** [**To curb school violence, this approach works better than detention and suspending or expelling students.**](http://hechingerreport.org/detentions-suspension-expulsion-not-curb-violent-behavior/) By Lee Kern in the Hechinger Report **4\.** [**Struggling with your New Year’s resolutions? Try being kind to yourself.**](https://theconversation.com/cant-keep-your-new-years-resolutions-try-being-kind-to-yourself-70698) By Kristin Neff in The Conversation **5\.** [**This is the 401(k) problem we refuse to solve.**](https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-01-03/the-401-k-problem-we-refuse-to-solve) By Megan McArdle in Bloomberg View  [_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/4623638/how-to-fix-the-american-cop/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4623638/how-to-fix-the-american-cop/"},"headline":"How To Fix The American Cop","datePublished":"2017-01-05T17:45:44.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:59:12.324Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4623638/how-to-fix-the-american-cop/","keywords":["Innovation","Internet","Education","police","New Year's Resolutions","finance"],"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/4623638/how-to-fix-the-american-cop/","name":"How To Fix The American Cop"}}]}] ```