However, I would point out that there is much compelling work in the field of study on cops who have repeated citizen complaints about abusive treatment by cops. When approached from the perspective of why twenty or thirty percent of the officers seem to have no or limited people interaction problems one gets to try and spread identifiable “best practices”

I enounterd a series of papers on “best practices” in connection with my responsibilities for a large school district with “Campus Assistants”

Regretably, I don’t remember the titles of any of the papers, but I just did a google search that returned several good possilties. (cops, trouble, best practices)

Clearly not directly relatable to shooting incidents, but in the Risk Managment business, we learn that when you reduce the frequency of underlying precursor incidents, you get less of those events that result from an escalation of those incidents.

A little bit like the “community policing” effort of stopping little crimes to reduce bigger ones. From my experience, it works.

Brian Frohmuth
Visalia, Ca

Of course this is not necessarily so, but it seems that as the result of this “expert” theory not only did more than a hundred women suffer the unexplained deaths of their children, but were then wrongfully convicted of murdering them. In fact, there is a strong genetic link to some cases of SIDS deaths, there are possible infections which contribute, and factors such as low birth weight also show a strong correlation. If one twin dies of SIDS, for example, studies have shown that the other twin is six to twelve times more likely than the average infant to also die of SIDS - and these are in cases where abuse has probably been ruled out.

Police officers don’t all work in the same circumstances or the same neighborhoods. There are some who will be exposed to far more violence and danger than others. One should be very wary of assuming that cluster events automatically are caused by the person designated as the center of the cluster. It leads to great injustice.

There are bad cops, but there are ways to deal with them that are far more efficient and productive than simply labeling as bad all cops who are working in areas or in climates that are controversial. Not only is this unjust, but it will inevitably lead to police officers avoiding danger and scenes of conflict, instead of doing their jobs by intervening.

Btw, I am no defender of bad cops. In two places where I have lived there have been cases of extreme abuse of power involving the police force. But no one should be condemned purely on the basis of statistics. No one.

Once again the MSM burys facts that they have but that do not support their spiel.