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Virtual Reality Utilized for Police De-Escalation Training On 5/20/21 at 10:56 AM EDT An Indiana police department is using virtual reality to train its officers on how to de-escalate dangerous situations that could end in injuries or fatalities. The Greenfield Police Department in central Indiana demonstrated the new technology on Wednesday as an officer showed local media a virtual simulation of a situation that police would be expected to de-escalate. Fox 59 reported that the virtual reality training system provided by Evolution VR began in the spring, and allowed police trainers to see wh...

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Police Turn to Virtual Reality for Field Training Exercises Virtual reality training can now allow police officers to apply techniques — such as implicit bias, cultural competency, de-escalation and peer intervention — to real-life encounters in practice scenarios. May 10, 2021 •  Shutterstock (TNS) — Two Virginia police officers in December pulled over a Black and Latino U.S. Army officer for a missing license plate before they pointed guns at 2nd Lt. Caron Nazario, pepper sprayed him and pushed him to the ground, according to videos of the incid...

NorCal police agency arrests two of its own in two days FacebookTwitterEmail A Northern California police department arrested two of its own in as many days this week. The Sacramento Police Department announced the arrests of the officers for separate allegations of domestic violence and filing false police reports. Officer Justin David Shepard was arrested Friday, one day after his department said it was notified of a week-old domestic violence incident that left a victim with visible injuries in Natomas. In a press release, the department said the incident occurred while Shepard was off-dut...

Sacramento police officer arrested in domestic violence case Follow Us Question of the Day       By - Associated Press - Friday, May 7, 2021 SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - A Sacramento police officer was arrested Friday on suspicion of domestic violence and making a threat with a gun, authorities said. Justin Shepard, 30, was also booked into jail on suspicion of false imprisonment, corporal injury on a spouse or cohabitant and making criminal threats against a victim of death or great bodily injury, according ...