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makers – those in the white shirts – being too detached from the street to understand how the current policing landscape affects the intensity of the use-of-force decision.
“I don’t think there’s enough people that understand use of force that are involved in writing these orders or creating lesson plans to educate and bring officers up to speed on the changes,” Cantore confirms.
Think about the training that you received at the acad- emy. Between the range staff and the physical skills unit, you learned maneuvers and tactics to help on the street. The main objective was becoming educated about the use- of-force response to a subject’s actions. And there was fol- low-up to learn about lethal force.
But the expertise is built on the street.
“Because nobody can ever train you for that moment when things are rapidly evolving and you have to make that ongoing decision,” Cantore continues. “You need to follow your own words and do what you think is right at the time.”
When Cantore was an instructor, use-of-force training was a 16-hour course that incorporated all the categories, including de-escalation and force mitigation. But he feels the training that takes place now is too many hours of lec- ture that seem to be taking place just as a response to the consent decree.
Again, confusion about what is acceptable use of force is being caused by policy coming down from people who are not on the same page.
“People involved should be the people who actually know use of force,” Cantore directs. “So rather than somebody
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