Send in the social workers.

[onlinebiker]

So are you the one with a crystal ball that is going to dispatch who goes on what call?  You just " know" which calls are going to need an armed response?

Fine - send the social worker to the " cat in a tree" calls.

And cops on the scene are the ones that need to make the call of what degree of force is needed - not some empty headed stuffed suit in city hall who is going to make his decisions on use of force based on upcoming election projections.

Not me, certainly, but this doesn’t seem to be a difficult chore. Can you tell me why police - you know, the guys with guns, tasers, pepper spray, riot batons and so on - need to be sent out on a welfare check or a missing juvenile?

If cops on-scene are the best judges of the amount of force required, explain the story I linked about the in-scene cop who beat the crap out of an unarmed, unresisting, manacled teenager.

Boru

Because cops are human.

They are just as prone to violence, irrationality, prejudice and general assholedness as any other human being.

You are not going to " train that out of them".

If we could - it would make more sense to train the rest of the population into not being cunts - that need policing.