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Aspects of this? >> that's a hard one in a sense as far as the communication because we haven't had something similar to that. i think certainly what i would say is improvement is by issuing all the officers with department cell phones and to give them that situational awareness in realtime. it is difficult when you do have an incident. people end up overusing the radio and communication ends up breaking down. the long-term answer to that is through additional training and being able to, once things get a little bit more settled down, to have table top exercises, having areas to instruct the o...

That troubling? >> for me, from my perspective, it's troubling because they were involved in what they perceived apparently as a deadly force encounter. they did have a gentleman armed with a screwdriver that could be used to inflict serious bodily injury or death. but once they had secured him, in other words, they fired their shots, removed the threat, taken the weapon away, now they have an obligation to properly secure him, whether in handcuffs but also to render aid. once the force is over, once they've achieved the objective, now they have a responsibility to do something to try to help ...