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Podcast: Turning A Moment Into A Movement
Episode: Is Police Training being used as an Excuse for Misconduct?
Description: With all the recent police encounters, that have left many victims dead or near death... The Training of Officers...or the lack of it always comes into question.
There is a very thin line between Training policy and Humanity.
Officers are trained to βshoot to stop,β which often results in a homicide, Alexander said. They aim for the center mass of a personβs chest because it is the target they are most certain to hit and is most likely to take the suspect down.
In 44 states of the United States, more than 30,000 law enforcement officers lost t...