What's becoming clearer with each new incident is how poor (read inexpensive and unregulated) training and lack of education has come back to bite us in the collective butt.
Ohio's AG (no liberal he) issued a report recently detailing how prospective cops don't need to have graduated from high school/earned a GED. In addition, they aren't drug or psych tested. With this kind of quality control, could we expect anything different from what's happening?
Combine this with fewer hours training, an emphasis on lethal vs. incapacitating firepower, Special Ops–type equipment, and the kind of ill-informed attitudes prevalent all over the news and social media.
Each incident only seems to polarize the country further. I can't see how this country will recover.
