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The manpower shortage and the effects of Covid have also reduced total training time in most departments. There’s no time to train when all the officers are working double shifts just to cover manpower on the street. Officers assigned as full time trainers are often being shifted to street patrol to cover shortages. Training happens less often and is regularly hurried. The trainers are less experienced. Less experienced trainers, fewer experienced officers (who know what safety protocols should look like), and hurried training classes lead to tragedies like those linked above.

The only way that these incidents can be prevented is if officers learn proper safety protocols for scenario based training and refuse to participate in departmental training if those protocols are not adhered to. That takes courage, initiative, and knowledge. I’m not certain it’s going to happen.