What if we passed a law that required all police departments to reduce the crime rate in their jurisdiction to zero percent. Since doing something like that takes time, the law would be set up so that the police have ten years to meet the target. To help them reach the target, each year they would have to meet a crime rate target that was lower than the previous year until they got to a state of no crime in the tenth year. This sounds like a reasonable thing for a police department to do, right?
Now what happens if we also include in that law a punishment for police departments that do not meet the yearly targets? If you don't do your job, you would be punished right? If a police department does not meet the yearly targets they will lose funding, be forced to go through reorganization including the firing of police officers deemed to be not doing enough to reduce the crime rate, and could possibly be closed down in favor of new privately run police departments.
Does something like this make sense?
Replace police departments with schools, crime rate with test scores, flip zero to one hundred, and police officers to teachers and you have our current education system.
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