Should Cops Be Trained? All in Due Time.

First you give them a badge, a gun, a uniform, and a few words of advice. Then you send the rookies out on the street.

And maybe after a few months, or a year, or two years, you send them to be properly trained at a police academy. Because you know, it's cheaper to not train them right away, and easier. So if arming wet-behind-the-ears rookie cops with firearms and telling them to sink or swim leads to the death of civilians now and again, well, that's unfortunate, but it's a risk that police chiefs in more than thirty states are perfectly willing to take.

Comments

[John Galt]

Is this part of the "New Professionalism"?

[Mike]

Back off, man. These guys did it "by the books." They followed all of the "proper procedures."