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> when police have done everything they can to de-escalate a violent situation, resort to the minimum force possible, ... My understanding is that it is very c

• ineedasername 6y ago
  Yes, very unfortunate. Given the wave of the last years of incidents like this, some departments have begun having additional emphasis on de-escalation, but that's not enough. It needs to be ingrained in training from day 1, and for current police it needs to be an intensive retraining requirement. That said, there will always be incidents that cannot be safely (for the officer & surrounding public) brought to closure with force, even with perfect training. That has to be understood and baked into the expectations we have of police conduct. But always-on body cameras that are robustly tamper resistant with stiff penalties, like getting fired for disabling or obscuring them, are necessary to make this happen. We have to be able to audit police actions to know if they made a best-effort to de-escalate, to avoid force. Failures caught on tape need to be replayed and dissected in after-action reports by the rank & file to know how they can avoid similar mistakes. I mean, this is standard stuff in plenty of jobs: something screws up, you fix the immediate issue ASAP, then you figure out why it went wrong and gather the stakeholders to review and figure out how not to screw up in the future.