Causes of Crime

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Originally Posted by donquixote99

You miss the point.

It does not turn on whether the law here or anywhere supports shooting innocents and using unreasonable force. Of course it doesn't, or shouldn't.

But the trainer's point was to attempt to define law officer in the trainees' minds. It's not the uniform you wear, it's what you do. If you do wrong, you are not a law officer.

The hope was that the trainees would get it, as they took on the identity of law officer, and would govern their behavior accordingly.

I bet our training says much the same thing. The roots of this problem run way deeper than what a trainer says or doesn't say in a class full of dozing police recruits.