06-15-2020, 01:20 AM
I am soooo glad that I live in a city where the cops are required to undergo periodic de-escalation training. This is serious training, with live situational drills, and an on-staff experts. We also have had a citizen-run police review commission since 1973. The cops here may not all be angels, but they have a completely different culture to much of the stuff I'm seeing on the news. They managed to get through the post-Charlottesville period when a bunch of neo-nazis invaded our town with intent to riot without any violent police-on-protester clashes. This is what it should look like all over the US.