What Dog Shootings Reveal About American Policing.

This story is one that really stuck out to me. I remember reading an article about it where he said it was partially his military training that led him to see the man wasn't a threat, although I can't find that one any more, so take that with a grain of salt.

I do wonder, however, whether the problem isn't that the US police are becoming more and more like the military, but that they're getting armed in a manner similar to the military without getting the kind of training the military get to drill into them the safe use of those weapons, and the correct ways to judge threats.

While my own (admittedly very brief) interactions with US police were perfectly reasonable, and I suspect that's true for the majority of the time, it does seem like there's serious problems over there.