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#246 — Police Training & Police Misconduct

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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What Kind of Training Should Be Available More and More to Police Officers?

The police reliance on tasers is not without significant risk, in this case, risk of the extremely negative outcome of drawing your firearm by accident. So when members of the general public believe they're witnessing the murderous sadism and racism of an oppressive police force, that's not at all what's on display. What we're saying are people who are poorly trained and very much in over their heads once things turn violent.

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