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> Gone, too, is a classroom poster that once warned recruits that “officers killed in the line of duty use less force than their peers.” Wow. That was a thing
by gherkin0 11y ago
> Gone, too, is a classroom poster that once warned recruits that “officers killed in the line of duty use less force than their peers.”
Wow. That was a thing that existed?
> Alexis Artwohl, a former police psychologist and consultant to the International Law Enforcement Educators and Trainers Association...is skeptical of some guardian-style training. Artwohl has co-written a book on deadly force whose promotional blurb begins: “In a cop’s world it’s kill or be killed.”
Jesus.
I hope this new-style training actually has an impact.
- anigbrowl 11y agoAn acquaintance of mine who used to be head of training for Oakland PD once commented to me that police officers had essentially the same psychological profile as gang members. I thought he was just engaging in some self-deprecating humor but he was at pains to point out that he was serious and regarded it as a chronic problem in police culture.