Dissertation related: An article in today’s New York Times about a drug bust gone wrong. An officer shot an unarmed suspect without waiting for special forces to come do their job:
The Police Department has acknowledged that the officer who shot Mr. Graham, Richard Haste, had never received the classroom instruction required of officers in the street narcotics unit.
Yikes. So why was he out there?
They also questioned why the unit’s officers used a narrow tactical radio frequency to alert their colleagues in the van that Mr. Graham might be armed, rather than issue a warning on a more heavily trafficked channel that would have drawn other police units to the scene.
I don’t know how much you can blame an officer who hasn’t had training to know the proper actions or interactions required of his position. I wish I could interview the officer who shot the suspect about how he and his team made their decisions that day.