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Originally Posted by afc wimbledon
Trouble is they hire them straight out of the armed forces, frankly if there is a worse place to find a cop than the military at the best of times its hard to imagine (with no disrespect to very brave men and women intended), but these days when they have spent 4 or 5 years in a kill or be killed environment its absurd to think they have any ability to do much else but use excessive force without thinking.
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I think a lot of the problem is that all cops have been trained in much the same way soldiers are. Minneapolis in fact is the first to step away from this training ideology...maybe not soon enough...
Minneapolis Bans Warrior Style For Police Officers...
https://nextcity.org/daily/entry/min...olice-officers
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“That’s why today we’re announcing that the Minneapolis Police Department will be — we believe — the first major department in the nation to prohibit fear-based training” both on and off-duty. “Warrior-style” training takes a fear-based approach to policing that prioritizes officer safety over community safety by conditioning trainees to view all encounters as inherently dangerous. The most well-known examples are offered by retired Lt. Colonel Dave Grossman and his Grossman Academy. The philosophy behind his courses and his book, “On Killing,” is this: Both soldiers and police officers should be trained to kill with less hesitation.
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