Police Training

I’m tired of people saying Police Officers need more training. You had 18 years to train your child not to steal, shoot, stab, burn down buildings, flip cars, block traffic attack other people, and be respectfully not limited to teachers, officers,employers, the elderly and yourself. Police didn’t fail you, you failed your child.

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dancingtongue · 80-89, M

It's not a question of quantity, but quality of training. What they get now a days tends to focus on confrontation, use of force, SWAT Teams, using all that surplus military equipment the Feds have handed out to them, etc. They need training in the old-fashioned skills of de-escalation situations, managing crisis situations without adding to them, and other skills they used to have under community policing where officers interacted with and knew those in the neighborhoods they patrolled and worked together with the community rather than bully it.

Roundandroundwego · 61-69

@dancingtongue the greatest training in the whole world won't make some jobs right!

dancingtongue · 80-89, M

@Roundandroundwego Nope. But it reduces the risk of making the job worse unnecessarily.