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Originally Posted by kane
The bottom line is that the police need more training, but many departments are underfunded and the police are under-trained. Better leadership and better training might help decrease the number of people killed by the police per year.
All that said, when you look at the big picture and you see the number of crimes committed every year and the number of people arrested and you compare that to the number of people killed by the police, the number killed almost seems low to me.
Then again, I also know that with some people it doesn't matter what they do, the cops can't win and will always be the bad guy.
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Some common sense would also help, even without training there should be a brain cell or two in the police's head.
We haven't many people being shot by a cop around here, but I don't think it's because of better training, the whole culture is differently. Here if you would try to be some macho sheriff, I guess you would be laughed out of police, if not being fired before that.