You can lead a horse to water...
A person who has never stepped foot in the US, doesn't have any law enforcement experience and can't accept new information... The US is waiting for your arrival, so you can fix our broke system of law enforcement. Until then, live long and prosper.
What can US trigger-happy cops learn from Britain's gunless police?
Note the author is a WaPO journalist, working in London and not a British police officer saying do this:
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...experts say the way British bobbies are trained, commanded and vigorously scrutinized may offer US police forces a useful blueprint for bringing down the rate of deadly violence and defusing some of the burning tension felt in cities from coast to coast.
The stats below give some context:http://www.independent.co.uk/incomin...rit-police.jpg
Link:http://www.independent.co.uk/news/wo...-10316119.html
A former cop who killed shares lessons on deadly force
One of the better articles I've read on police shootings:http://bigstory.ap.org/article/a5085...s-deadly-force
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Is American Policing At a Crossroads?
A short "broad brush" review of American policing by a criminologist, Professor Ronald Witzer (GWU) so not just about shootings; this is the most current thread on US LE.
It is available free via the latest issue of the 'The Criminlogist':http://www.asc41.com/criminologist.html
Or on the attachment (minus references).
Glare of Video Is Shifting Public’s View of Police
A sometimes hard to watch video montage of recent and not so recent incidents from the NYT:
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Those videos, all involving white officers and black civilians, have become ingrained in the nation’s consciousness — to many people, as evidence of bad police conduct. And while they represent just a tiny fraction of police behavior — those that show respectful, peaceful interactions do not make the 24-hour cable news — they have begun to alter public views of police use of force and race relations, experts and police officials say.
Videos have provided “corroboration of what African-Americans have been saying for years,” said Paul Butler, a professor at Georgetown University Law School and a former prosecutor, who called them “the C-Span of the streets.”
Link:http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/31/us...f-police.html?
The article is also worth reading about body-worn and vehicle video systems are not a magic solution.
The County: the story of America's deadliest police
A long article in The Guardian; with a sub-title:
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Police in Kern County, California, have killed more people per capita than in any other American county in 2015. The Guardian examines how, with little oversight, officers here became the country’s most lethal
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In all, 13 people have been killed so far this year by law enforcement officers in Kern County, which has a population of just under 875,000. During the same period, nine people were killed by the NYPD across the five counties of New York City, where almost 10 times as many people live and about 23 times as many sworn law enforcement officers patrol.
Link:http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2...olice-killings
There is an interesting table for:
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America's deadliest counties for police killings this year Among all US counties with five or more officer-involved killings logged by the Guardian in 2015, Kern County saw the most deaths per capita.*
The deadliest counties — those with 10 or more deaths – are show below