Editor’s Note: This is part two of a two part blog post examining police use of force. Part one examines the deferential legal standards applied to police use of force. Part two examines the relationship between officer training and police use of force.
Continuing from last week’s post on the deferential legal standards that allow police officers to use force without fear of any form of accountability, this second part focuses on the need to train police officers to be members of a community. To facilitate trust amongst the citizens living in the neighborhoods they patrol, officers can unilaterally diminish the frequency with which they must resort to force. As such, the police departments should foster this idea in the way they train current and future police officers.
