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Originally Posted by Derek Sutton
I think it's important not to confuse training with policy. In many of these incidents the police are acting how they have been trained. It could be schematics, but I personally think there're three key elements. Hiring, Policy and Training in that order.
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Cops deal with all kinds of different situations, and by all accounts are not properly trained on most, nor is there a playbook (probably due to a lack of proper policy or training available).
I think that is being exposed a lot.
Like Lanny said, most police departments have been militizing the police force. That includes not only the equipment they use, but also how they respond. How many years have we been hearing about SWAT teams raiding homes of completely innocent people? Or the fact that people could 'swat' other people they didn't like?
There have been people who have been saying for years that cops acting like the military, or having military resources will make them respond to incidents like the military would, but WITHOUT the actual training that the military would have.
I guess that is exactly what we are seeing.
From 2011.
How the War on Terror Has Militarized the Police
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At around 9:00 a.m. on May 5, 2011, officers with the Pima County, Arizona, Sheriff's Department's Special Weapons and Tactics (S.W.A.T.) team surrounded the home of 26-year-old José Guerena, a former U.S. Marine and veteran of two tours of duty in Iraq, to serve a search warrant for narcotics. As the officers approached, Guerena lay sleeping in his bedroom after working the graveyard shift at a local mine. When his wife Vanessa woke him up, screaming that she had seen a man outside the window pointing a gun at her, Guerena grabbed his AR-15 rifle, instructed Vanessa to hide in the closet with their four-year old son, and left the bedroom to investigate.
Within moments, and without Guerena firing a shot—or even switching his rifle off of "safety"—he lay dying, his body riddled with 60 bullets. A subsequent investigation revealed that the initial shot that prompted the S.W.A.T. team barrage came from a S.W.A.T. team gun, not Guerena's. Guerena, reports later revealed, had no criminal record, and no narcotics were found at his home.
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https://www.theatlantic.com/national...police/248047/