Training and equipping peace officers to de-escalate situations is far cheaper and better for the general population than the hundreds of millions in excessive force and wrongful death lawsuits that are paid out of our taxes.

NYC alone has dropped over $300M on settling lawsuits due to their poor training over the last 5 years[0]

I know a couple current and former NYPD officers and the amount of times I’ve been told of how a routine mental health check up turned into 4+ cops beating the crap out of an unarmed person in their own home would likely surprise most people who aren’t familiar with how brutal the police in the USA are.

[0] https://nypost.com/2020/01/31/city-payouts-in-nypd-misconduc...