Jeffrey St. Clair @JSCCounterPunch
It's not how many hours cops in the US are trained, it's what they're trained to do in those hours, such as: apply a chokehold, use a taser, deploy pepper spray, swing a truncheon, fire a tear gas canister, shoot "rubber" bullets, profile black drivers/joggers, place a drop gun — PolitiTweet.org
Bill Weir @BillWeirCNN
Average hours of training required to be a police officer: Finland 4500 India 4500 Germany 4000 Australia 3500 Eng… https://t.co/QNANQYaKRn