Unarmed Law Enforcement in Countries Where the Citizen's are Armed

Not that cops should forget about their own safety, they should be capable of multi tasking , think about the community and their own safety simultaneously.
There are a few cops in my family tree, starting with my paternal great granddad , an uncle and a cousin , all small town cops . So while I personally have never been a cop , I do know how the job description reads.


could you cite that info ?

I'm sure that if the ' shoot first, and if done correctly no need to ask questions later' part of the training for cops was to be cut , then that would help cut down on the 'death by cop' numbers too.

Speaking of 'arm chair quarter backing' are you a native of Australia?

My thoughts when I started this thread was that there would some discussion on whether we could adopt or adapt some of the techniques that other counties have had success using.

The cops do need better/different training. That decision though needs to be supported through the chain of command and will take time, and frankly I think it is going to get uglier before it gets better.

Just take ABQ, DOJ came down on them hard, and in the recent report released on excessive force, they are still not improving fast enough.

What moron decided 19 weeks was enough time ?
No wonder we have so many ' bad cops'.
They take a bunch of young people give them just under 5 months of self defense classes and give a gun a flack jacket , tell em shoot first ask questions later( but if its done correctly they'll be no need for questions) toss them out into one of the most stressful and dangerous jobs on the planet .

Of course if a citizen showed up at a city hall meeting tossing out ideas about better longer police trainings if they weren't ignored out of hand, they'd run into the tired brick wall of who's going to pay for,,,
How quickly those board members ,mayor and the like ,forget its tax payers paying for it already.
Cracks mé up to hear one of them ask a room full of tax paying citizens ' who's going o pay for something .