Daunte Wright and the Crisis of American Police Training
The Atlantic Officers in the United States don’t get as much instruction as police in other rich countries. Christopher Anderson / Magnum In response to the high rate at which American police kill civilians, many on the left have taken up the call for defunding the police, or abolishing the police entirely. But some policing experts are instead emphasizing a different approach that they say could reduce police killings: training officers better, longer, and on different subjects. “We have one of the worst police-training academies in comparison to other democratic countries,” Maria Habe...
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