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By Cherranda Smith May 18, 2021 A controversial, aggressive form of training for police officers is being offered across the country. The “Warrior” training seeks to get police officers prepared to face deadly threats by equipping them with deadly tactical maneuvers. Some police departments, including the Minneapolis Police Department, have attempted to ban officers from participating in the training.  “Warrior training has become sort of a catch all for a type of training that tries to emphasize this idea that police officers need to tap into their ‘inner warrior’ their inner sur...

Training cops to de-escalate Today's best articles Daily business briefing Solving COVID newsletter Can police officers be taught to defuse confrontations instead of using deadly force? Here's everything you need to know: What is de-escalation? It's a method of policing designed to reduce shootings and other uses of force by teaching cops to act slowly, ask open-ended questions, and resist the urge to draw their guns. The average recruit receives less than 10 hours of de-escalation instruction, compared with 58 hours of firearms training, and 29 states don't require it. But de-escalation has...

They included all seven engineers on the team that maintains the code library that supports Facebook’s apps. “Facebook’s recent decision to not act on posts that incite violence ignores other options to keep our community safe. We implore the Facebook leadership to #TakeAction,” they said in a joint statement published on Twitter. “Mark is wrong, and I will endeavour in the loudest possible way to change his mind,” wrote Ryan Freitas, identified on Twitter as director of product design for Facebook’s News Feed. He added he had mobilised “50+ likeminded folks” to lobby for in...