Trained To Kill: The Policing Tactics The Public Isn’t Supposed To Know About

[MrScorpio]

Other lessons Jack learned from the “Anatomy of Force Incidents” training in January include a need to over-analyze one’s environment for deadly threats by using one’s imagination to create “targets of the day” who could be “reasonably” shot, to view racial profiling as a legitimate policing technique, even if the person is a child, pregnant woman or elderly person, and to use the law to one’s advantage to avoid culpability.

Despite the American public’s push for police reform, some law enforcement officers are attending classes emphasizing use of force -- even if their departments don’t Ok it.
By Katie Rucke @katierucke | June 2, 2014

MINNEAPOLIS — On May 28, 126 police officers in Seattle filed a lawsuit in federal court, arguing that restrictions placed on the department by a federal court in 2012 regarding officers’ ability to use excessive force was a violation of their constitutional rights as officers.

Although the restrictions were put in place by the feds to curb the rampant unconstitutional policing the city was experiencing — especially when it came to the use of excessive and deadly force against mostly minority suspects — the officers argue that having to restrain themselves while on duty only leads to an increase in the number of citizens and officers killed.

In their 81-page filing, the officers specifically argue that they are often put in situations in which they have no choice but to overreact and use force. They also say that the current “impractical and burdensome” restrictions only “trap” officers and lead to an increase in misconduct violations.

http://www.mintpressnews.com/trained-to-kill-the-policing-tactics-the-public-isnt-supposed-to-know-about/191639/

It's not like that we weren't warned.

[Warren DeMontague]

1. throw a flash grenade into a baby's crib, lock a college student in a room for 5 days with no water

for smoking pot, send in a SWAT team to drag a wheelchair bound granny off over a pot brownie..

yay drug war!

[Calculating]

3. Stealing money and assets from citizens left and right without due process

Civil Forfeiture for the win.

[Rex]

2. So we are not the enemy, we are the perceived enemy?

That is actually worse. This doesn't justify summary executions, but it does explain them somewhat.

[gopiscrap]

4. fucking cops

[SammyWinstonJack]

6. Fucking worthless cops.

[Feeling the Bern]

7. Two just gave a homeless black kid help. That excuses all of this.

Get on your knees and kiss their feet. So does the cop bringing someone two gallons of milk.

[mountain grammy]

5. Legal justifications for police brutality?

Chilling story. I'm thinking many of the brutal cops caught on videos are graduates of Calibre Press training. Time for us citizens to take control of our local law enforcement.