I wish someone could explain to me why police in other countries de-escalate situations nonviolently in so many instances where police in the U.S. are more likely to shoot to kill. We talk about “better police training” but nothing seems to change...

Oct 28, 2020 · 5:47 PM UTC

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(I corrected a deleted tweet. Thank you for the advice from so many. One veteran wrote of how police training started changing in the 90s. Please re-post. I know I should’ve left the other one up. Just learning…)
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theatlantic.com/internationa…

What the World Could Teach America About Policing

Examples abound of reforms that are seen as “radical” in the United States.

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American police are taught to shoot as a form of de-escalation
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You mean like this? youtube.com/9XN6mmmYqIw

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Police here in the U.S. know how to de-escalate situations when the suspect is white. It's only Black or brown people that they shoot to kill! We know exactly what's going on!
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Name those countries, please.
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Because they get away with it over here
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It doesn’t have anything to do with training. It has to do with who you select to be your police. If you hire authoritarians to do your policing, and then give them immunity to do it anyway they want, don’t be surprised if you end up dead.
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What’s happening in Nigeria?
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It's the same reason American people (on both sides of the fence) are about bullying. They don't know the difference between kindness and hate.
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The militarization of police includes training them to think like soldiers - the enemy is dehumanized, is out to destroy us and must be destroyed lest they ruin our way of life. Fellow Americans are deemed the enemy. That scares me more than the tanks, teargas and other gear.
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