Police Rethink Long Tradition on Using Force

New York Times ^ | May 4, 2015 | By MATT APUZZO

[trebb]

How about instead we just all work hard to get Ted Cruz in the WH, then we won’t have to deal with this nonsense.

BTTT

[babygene]

“You may want to do a little research on that.”

I already have, but you should do your own...

[Chicory]

This is interesting. The change was made in the 1980’s, and recently it seems that the number of officer-involved shootings has gone up... as the officers who were trained under the old rules have retired and been replaced with those who were trained under the new rules. As the older officers retire, there is a reduction in modeling of de-escalation as well.

http://www.hindawi.com/journals/jcrim/2014/726492/

The link above was all I could find quickly, but what it shows goes along with the time frame.

[Eagles6]

I have.