Re:US police receive less training than plumbers
by Imnimo on Thursday February 02, 2023 @05:34PM
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>Why would you think that?
The purpose of police training is to indoctrinate recruits into police culture.
https://twitter.com/KatieSponsler/status/1619341593827487744
> I don't think it's controversial to say the responding officers just didn't know what they were supposed to be doing in that situation, did the wrong thing
I think if you polled 100 police officers, you'd find that that is a very controversial issue, and that many of them support Chauvin's actions. They even had an officer testify that his actions were justified at his trial.
Why would you think that? I'm assuming the sort of police training we're talking about is "if you're faced with this situation, you should do..." The most famous case of police misconduct in recent history is George Floyd, and I don't think it's controversial to say the responding officers just didn't know what they were supposed to be doing in that situation, did the wrong thing, and it resulted in a death. Better training would definitely have alleviated that situation - it definitely wouldn't have made it worse.