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This caught my eye: > As she gripped her gun, she felt as if she’d stepped into one of the true-crime documentaries she binge-watched at night. Seems like an

• uoaei 4y ago
  Oh, just wait until your hear about the curricula in police training academies! Whole days are spent watching dash- and body-worn-cam videos of officers getting ambushed, ostensibly to teach ways to mitigate harm, but in practice it just has the effect of deepening the chasm between "us" officers and "them" citizens by instilling a deep sense of fear bordering on what may be considered an anticipatory PTSD. I mean, talk about a garbage biased dataset... (To any pedants in the audience, the trauma occurs when watching the videos, so "post-traumatic" is appropriate here :)) Here's an account from an ex-cop that made a splash following George Floyd's murder, but there are many, many more articles exactly like this scattered across the internet: https://medium.com/@OfcrACab/confessions-of-a-former-bastard-cop-bb14d17bc759 https://medium.com/@OfcrACab/confessions-of-a-former-bastard...
  • JasonFruit 4y ago
    On the other hand, what do you expect them to do, not train officers on that stuff so they don't get an antagonistic view of the public? That's like not having pilots read accident reports so they don't get spooked about losing power on takeoff; it's a real threat, so they should be prepared. I agree that antagonism between police and public is a big problem, but I'm not sure what the solution is to the particular problem you point out.