In this nation of 300+ million people there must be a million police at various levels of government. No amount of training is going to eliminate some of them making bad decisions in the heat of the moment.
That these stories get national attention tells me that they are still quite rare relative to the size of our country. When they get ignored by the media, like the day to day shootings in Chicago and other cities, then we need to get worried, then it becomes a risk people need to think about when they go out in the streets, and not just some highly unlikely event.
A lot more resources will go into preventing the next unjustified police shooting than will go into preventing the next 1,000 automobile fatalities. And plenty of justified police shootings will be mischaracterized by witnesses as being unjustified and the media will not lift a finger to set the facts straight.
No amount of training is going to eliminate some of them making bad decisions in the heat of the moment.
True. But until the "protect our own, at all costs" mentality changes, the cops do not deserve the benefit of the doubt.