re: Death by cop - Ryan Whitaker, PHX PD

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Who answers their door with a gun in their hand?

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Name checks out.

I think it’s the training itself that is the problem. They need less militant training. Cops get more training today than they did in the 70s & 80s and it has become more and more militant. They’re trained to see citizens as criminals so they hardly use judgment or friendly interactions. They want to run everyone’s background and bring them to jail. It’s nothing like when I grew up and a cop just talked to you as a fellow citizen.

Yes, there are some who still do but it’s not the norm. The new norm is to approach every citizen as though they they’re dangerous when in reality we have much more to fear with the shift from police depts who protect & serve to a militant agency for law enforcement on citizens.

First off the dispatch officer is a POS. You could tell the guy was lying/joking about any physical violence why did he try to bait him into saying physical violence was happening? And second off, why would the officer shoot someone as they’re on their knees?

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They need much more ongoing training. Just as much about how NOT to use their guns as being proficient with their use for example.

We don't need to defund the police we need to upfund them. There needs to be enough QUALITY police officers to rotate off of patrol and train on a consistent basis. In the military, we looked for a 1 to 3 deployment to dwell ratio and when it got down to 1 to 2 it was becoming mission-critical. Proper ongoing training reduces fear, reduced fear reduces mistakes in the field. If you can teach 18/19 not to shoot anything that moves in a foreign country where they don't speak the language cops can be trained well enough to reduce the chances of this type of encounter and ones like Daniel Shaver (also in AZ)

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Agree 100% but with the stipulation that the additional funds must go to training and not to fund further militarization of police forces.

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Very few cops are shot

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Well this is false.

There are about 700,000 police officers in the US. In 2019, of the 48 officers feloniously killed:

15 died as a result of investigative or law enforcement activities
6 were conducting traffic violation stops
4 were performing investigative activities
2 were drug-related matters
2 were interacting with wanted persons
1 was investigating suspicious person or circumstance
9 were involved in tactical situations
3 were barricaded/hostage situations
3 were serving, or attempting to serve, search warrants
2 were serving, or attempting to serve, arrest warrants
1 was reported in the category titled “other tactical situation”
5 were involved in unprovoked attacks
4 were responding to crimes in progress
2 were robberies
1 was larceny-theft
1 was reported in the category titled “other crime against property”
3 were involved in arrest situations and were attempting to restrain/control/handcuff the offender(s) during the arrest situations
3 were assisting other law enforcement officers
2 with vehicular pursuits
1 with foot pursuit
3 were responding to disorders or disturbances
2 were responding to disturbances (disorderly subjects, fights, etc.)
1 was responding to a domestic violence call
3 were involved in vehicular pursuits
2 were ambushed (entrapment/premeditation)
1 was serving, or attempting to serve, a court order (eviction notice, subpoena, etc.).
Weapons. Offenders used firearms to kill 44 of the 48 victim officers. Four officers were killed with vehicles used as weapons. Of the 44 officers killed by firearms:

34 were slain with handguns
7 with rifles
1 with a shotgun
2 with firearms in which the types of firearms were unknown or not reported
Regions. Felonious deaths were reported in four U.S. regions and Puerto Rico.

27 officers were feloniously killed in the South
9 in the Midwest
9 in the West
1 in the Northeast
2 in Puerto Rico

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Well except you're not necessarily supposed to shoot someone in the back like a coward when they're doing exactly what you're telling them to do, only because you have the extra freedom to do so.