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...
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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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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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Dont chase after people with a knife.... I wonder what you would do if someone came after you with a knife. Crawl up into a little ball and take your stabbing? What if you had a gun to protect yourself... Would you use it?
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Camden NJ receives a lot of credit for “abolishing and replacing” its police department. When in fact they “rehired” officers. What they did was implement new training and restructure their command staff. camdencountypd.org/senior-le…
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We’ve met you seem like a well meaning women, but this mistake is the universe telling you that you are straying from your path. Fight the narcissist tendencies of being all knowing. If you do, you continue to grow
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We all make mistakes ... actually ... you seem to make very few mistakes ... I think you're a lot like the rest of us ... Human!
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Bad training. Cops are trained to anti terrorism not street psych
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Mutch respect! Well done.
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White folks DO get de-escalated: "Some of the primary policing institutions there were the slave patrols tasked with chasing down runaways and preventing slave revolts; the first formal slave patrol had been created in the Carolina colonies in 1704." time.com/4779112/police-hist…

How the U.S. Got Its Police Force

For National Police Week, a brief history of policing in the U.S. and how societal changes shaped the evolution of the force

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