Don't see too much about these points but they are crystal clear to me.
1. According to what I've read, a much higher proportion of first responders - police, fire, and EMT personnel - are in the National Guard and Reserves. Since 2003, many of them have been deployed, multiple times, in war zones around the world. To my knowledge, there is no real program to reintegrate them into a "peacetime" US.
2. At an aikido seminar in 2013, one of the teachers was a retired policeman who had worked in both city and state forces and was trained by the FBI in unarmed compliance techniques. He taught a class that day on basic police techniques and aikido. I was his crash test dummie. Afterwards, we talked and he spoke about how he was trying to start a business training police in unarmed compliance since the only training they ever get is in the academy and the only annual technique review they get is recertification with their pistols. However, there was no money by municipalities and no time available from individual officers for his business to be successful. Because police officers do not know how to make people comply with persuasion or a painful but temporary joint lock, they resort to nightstick, taser, and gun much more often than they need to.
Mohamed Bouazizi set himself on fire because he was hassled by cops - Arab Spring.
Michael Brown, Eric Garner, Tamir Rice - American Winter?
Just asking.