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Right now police receive lots of tactical training so their instinct is to shoot first and ask questions later.
They do not receive adequate training on deescalation and crisis management, negotiation, and other soft skills that can manage an encounter with a hostile person without needing to resort to deadly force.
The chances of either are statistically insignificant. Instead of falling for every red herring the government throws at us, perhaps we should focus on real problems.
The chances of either are statistically insignificant. Instead of falling for every red herring the government throws at us, perhaps we should focus on real problems.
Distrust of police is a real problem in our society.
There are many more cops (good ones too) than mass shooters.
Mass shootings are kind of like Airplane crashes. Airplane crashes are tragic, media covered, dramatic..... in our daily lives, car crashes are far more common and people are more likely to die in a car crash than an airplane.
I do agree with this post:
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Originally Posted by atltechdude
The problem is training.
Right now police receive lots of tactical training so their instinct is to shoot first and ask questions later.
They do not receive adequate training on deescalation and crisis management, negotiation, and other soft skills that can manage an encounter with a hostile person without needing to resort to deadly force.
That's good news for me; If I have an encounter with a LEO I'll be cooperative and the encounter will end peacefully. The far majority of those killed by LEOs would still be alive to day if they had simply cooperated with commands.
Right now police receive lots of tactical training so their instinct is to shoot first and ask questions later.
They do not receive adequate training on deescalation and crisis management, negotiation, and other soft skills that can manage an encounter with a hostile person without needing to resort to deadly force.
and your experience is base on what??
Army vet with 2 tours in Iraq + 10 years in law enforcement here (3 out of 10 years as firearm/DT instructor)
Cops with advanced tactical training (whether it's from the military or in law enforcement) are less likely resort to deadly force. Police "tactical training" revolves around shoot or no shoot scenerios using human role players and virtual reality training/simulator
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Cops with advanced tactical training (whether it's from the military or in law enforcement) are less likely resort to deadly force.
Completely agree. Advanced tactical training like the military gets makes one feel more comfortable in high pressure scenarios which leads to calmer decision making and less trigger happy mistakes.
I'm simply pointing out that the training most police receive focuses more on tactical stuff and less on negotiation/deescalation, etc. Most of the mistakes police make involved the "I was scared for my life" type of excuse where the officer felt like pulling the trigger was his only choice. We need to increase the training for other types of conflict resolution to give them more and better choices.
More advanced military style tactical training certainly could help to.
Only State agents, especially cops, should have guns.
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