Quote:Correct no one should be assaulting police officers or threatening them no one will dispute that. If cops wore body cameras there would rarely if ever be a dispute over the validity of them shooting suspects. As with the recent case of the cop murdering the guy as he tried to drive away. 

 

Don't cops get training in taking down combative suspects? Non lethal methods of restraint? I guess if they don't then are being trained to shoot instead? You see the problem people have right? They assume cops are trained for these situations and just resort to the lethal method because they don't care. However, maybe they are not trained properly?

 

Full disclosure.  It's been almost 30 years since I trained and worked as a police officer, so the training might be different.

 

Training in "hand to hand combat" is done as well as take down procedures.  However, in the "real world" and under stressful circumstances, sometimes that training kind of goes out the window.  There most certainly are ways to restrain someone in a non-lethal way, and that is always the first choice.  The last choice is always deadly force.

 

A police officer is never going to use deadly force "because they don't care".  The last thing that any police officer wants to do is use deadly force.

 

One of the things that was really drilled into us was liability.  You must take care of anyone, even a suspect that you've taken into custody no matter the crime.  When you pull over a car for a traffic violation, you are responsible for their safety as well as your own.

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