Note the author is a WaPO journalist, working in London and not a British police officer saying do this:
...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:
Link:http://www.independent.co.uk/news/wo...-10316119.html