Originally Posted by afc wimbledon

I'm going to come back to this because to some degree I think this is the problem, in the late 1960's in LA if I remember rightly Police training changed radically, a philosophy of no policeman being harmed became paramount in the training, everything else became secondary to officer safety and it has lead to a large degree the US to where it is today and while it wasn't adopted here some elements of it have seeped into policing in Canada, yes it is terrible but ok if policemen are hurt on the job but it makes the police better at protecting society, that's literally the trade off we have to ask policemen to make.