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adjl posted...

Realistically, you're never going to get to a point where police officers are going to be the best option for every scenario police are currently involved in, no matter how well you train them. They do need better training (there's a graphic I've seen floating around that compares police education/training requirements across countries and police-related deaths, and the US is particularly light on training and particularly high on deaths), but mostly, they need to know when it's time for the hammer to step down and let another tool handle a non-nail problem (tools which need their own funding).

There's also no reason to presume that police departments need more funding for better training. Enough of the information police need is universal enough that prospective officers can just pay for their own education from third parties instead of getting everything on the job (like pretty much every other professional field), leaving on-the-job training to cover aspects that are more unique to that community/department. The mere act of adding some barriers to entry would also cut down on the number of people that treat the police force as a promotion from their previous position of High School Bully, which is a non-trivial part of the brutality problem.

I think you misunderstood what I meant (or I misunderstood this post) the police should have their money moved from paying extra cops for those scenarios they don't need to be a part of and put that money into training the smaller police forces the right way

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