Pros And Cons Of Police Training Reform

Opposing There are some that don’t want police training to be reformed. In the recent election Trump is enforcing stop and frisk and conceal carry. Stop and frisk is when a police suspect a person is dangerous, they can stop and pat down a person. This can be inhumane since officer can discriminate the minority. Spending will go up. When extending the police training program, the cost would increase as well. Adding new course for police would take much longer and this will reduce the number of police officer in the streets. In Europe, Llana says in “Germany, for example, police train for at least 130 weeks.” 130 weeks is close to 3 years. Officer would have to train for about 3 years to being able to patrol the streets. A problem that would

European countries should be a guideline the US should meet in the near future. In England knife violence is a big problem but Llama’s research says “British police have fatally shot only one person wielding a knife since 2008. US police have fatally shot more than 575 people allegedly wielding blades and other such weapons just in the years since 2013.” Many lives can be saved if the US can reform and extend police training. A suggestion to reform training is by adding new course to teach communication skills and de-escalating situations. A police’s role should be to serve and protect the citizens in the community. It can be achieve by treating people with dignity and respect. Another suggestion should be intense recruiting practices to insure the police department has the most trusted officer in the force. It may increase the budget to complete the reform but it will be well worth it to improve the lives of people and bring back trust with the police departments. The police academy is struggling to properly train officers due the short amount of training. Hopefully in the near future, a reform would be implicated to improve the law