Dear US police agencies, when you say "Serve and Protect" it's the citizenry and our laws - not those laws you determine which are more situationally important. And while technology helps determine safety it isn't the only multiplier
When Liberals Take Control of Police Cops stop shooting people. Political protests end peacefully. And crime drops dramatically. Just ask Richmond.
But one police department in the East Bay is proving that the law-and-order crowd has been wrong all these years, and that overwhelming force — especially lethal force — is not only unjustified, but completely unnecessary. Since 2007, the Richmond Police Department, under the command of Chief Chris Magnus, the most progressive police chief in the Bay Area, has not had a single fatal shooting by one of its officers, a fact that was first reported last weekend by the Contra Costa Times.
When Magnus took over the troubled Richmond PD in 2006, he quickly realized that overwhelming force was not the answer. In 2006 and 2007, Richmond cops shot five people, killing one of them. So he instituted numerous reforms, including training officers to defuse tense situations without firing their weapons. Magnus also emphasized the importance of investigating crime, and eschewed so-called hotspot policing, in which a department saturates an area with cops like an occupying force. "We are surgical," he told the CoCo Times earlier this year. "We concentrate on people that need to be focused on."
Magnus also installed a robust community-policing program, deploying officers into neighborhoods to forge relationships with residents. The effort was designed to reverse a longstanding problem in Richmond in which residents distrusted the city's violent police force and refused to cooperate with it. Magnus also reformed the way police respond to political demonstrations, training officers to take a softer, gentler approach.
The Future of Policing
why is non-lethal force not job one, why should it have been that an LEO even makes the claim that they aren't taser trained or even "I thought I was reaching for my taser" while drawing their sidearm.
police are always authorized to stand their ground, we know they should be range qualified why is that not the last resort and yes even as all lives are precious the data shows that police fatalities are in fact not proportionally justifiable