The Police Trainer Who Teaches Cops to Kill

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Craig Atkinson’s short film includes documentary footage of police-training seminars that embrace the “warrior cop” mentality.

Three years ago, amid the protests erupting in the streets of Ferguson, Missouri, President Barack Obama ordered a review of a federal program allowing military equipment to be transferred from the armed forces to state and local police departments. For many, the images of local police dressed in camouflage and travelling in armored vehicles became a metaphor for the ways in which the lines had blurred between civilian law enforcement and the military—a phenomenon that the journalist Radley Balko has referred to as the “rise of the warrior cop.” The review resulted in an executive order that curtailed the transfer of some types of military equipment. A new short film by Craig Atkinson, “Conditioned Response,” which includes unreleased footage shot while filming his documentary “Do Not Resist,” from 2016, suggests that the armored vehicles rolling through Ferguson were only the most visible indicators of this militarization. Another, more subtle—and perhaps more intractable—form of it is affecting the psychology of the officers themselves.

http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/militarizing-the-minds-of-police-officers

[SamKnause]

1. Fucking psycho belongs in a cage, not a classroom.

The United States loves to teach men to kill.

It is the one thing the U.S. is exceptional at.

Whether it be the military or police.

I am so sick and tired of the EVIL shit this country does under the guise of protection !!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Hassin Bin Sober]

2. I've been saying for years we have a training problem and an occupation mentality problem.

That guy right there is ground fucking zero.

[Jim__]

3. "Stay hard"

Fucking assholes.

[GaYellowDawg]

4. That was my EXACT response.

"Stay hard."
"Oorah."

Fucking assholes. You're not Marines. You don't get to go "oorah." You're cops.