Davenport and Stanford University professor Sarah Soule write in Business Insider, "As President-elect Joe Biden nears inauguration, police reform remains top of mind for many Americans. Biden's criminal justice plan focuses on community crime prevention and expanding accountability of officer misconduct but if he wants to help eradicate the excessive enforcement tactics we witnessed police using this summer, he need not look further than the 1970s."
They suggest a re-emphasis on the "negotiated management" model that had emerged then but eroded over the past 20 years.
The full commentary can be seen here.