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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was listening to NPR this afternoon and the founder of Blue LIves Matter was on.  He said some stuff I agree with, like much better training for police.  He mentioned the Tamir Rice case and said Ohio police training academy is "only" about 600 hours of training.  And then they just have about 2 hours of training after graduation.

He said it was unfair to the police to give them so little training, then "things like this happen," and we rake the police all over the coals.

I had never looked at it from that perspective, but I do know that highly professional police departments do lots of training, as I've mentioned before in other threads (autism, substance abuse, mental health, domestic violence, de-escalation, taser use, etc.).   These have been presented to me as a way to keep the public safer to reduce the need to use force.   But I see it now from the police perspective, too.

He also said that local governments weren't funding the required training and gear.  And I can see that in many, MANY police departments across the nation.

I wonder if that's something that the feds can provide grants for.   Targeted at training, and ensuring that training meets certain standards.  Rather than outfit them with military gear as happened after 9/11.[/quote]

Absolutely.   A colleague of mine used to be a police academy trainer and he told me that his city gave no training at all in how to de-escalate a situation, and as a result many did not know how to stay cool under pressure.

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