That’s why, of late, I have been pitching for the idea of police training reform at the state level. A lot of these problems began in the 1970s, when the feds started encouraging police to be more aggressive, using SWAT tactics in routine police work.
Originally done to counter a few high profile police assassinations by radicals, it had just the opposite of its intended effect, with more police and civilians getting wounded and killed.
Already there have been some efforts to reform this, by taking police out of their cars, putting them back on beats, and getting to know the people on their beat personally. But it needs to become part of their institutionalized training.
I can agree with that