By September 1, 2015, the United States police have killed 776 people and 161 of those people were unarmed at the time of their death. There have been too many incidents where police have injured or killed someone that could have been prevented. Using maximum force with a suspect has become a routine in situations. Officers have not been given the proper training to deal with fatal situations. If they were given more training, police departments would have to spend more money on training, but police brutality situations would decrease lives would be saved, and police would get their good reputation back.
The main goal for police officers should be keeping communities safe and free from fear, including fear of the officers themselves. Andrew
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Hundreds of people this year have been killed by police that could have been stopped with proper training and communication skills. These incidents are happening every day and until the Police Department shows their officers what to do in certain situations, police brutality is not going to stop. The president of the International Association of Chiefs of Police, said that there is not a lot of money to provide officers better training in community relations. “The Justice Department’s own Community Oriented Policing Services, which is in charge of the task force, estimated that by 2011, a third of all police departments had trimmed their operating budgets by more than five percent. In that year alone, departments laid off an estimated 12,000 law enforcement officers.” On that same year the COPS budget was cut by three hundred million, gutting a lot of grant programs that help hire and train officers. Police Departments do not have the money to give their officers greater training than what they are receiving. Since there is no money to give better training Police Officers are going to have to stick with the same training that they are receiving and there can be no solution to stop police