The problem of poor training for police officers is widespread throughout the US and Canada. Contrary to what most people might think, police generally receive very little training on de-escalating situations, use of force, or in hand-to-hand combat. The result is they resort to guns much more often than police in Europe and other jurisdictions who are much better trained. Police in Japan are all expected to get their black belts in Judo, for example, and will go a long way to avoid hurting anyone. In North America police resort to guns far, far more than even they used to in the past. Check out a you tube video, for instance, of a White House intruder with a knife who wouldn't surrender back in the early 80s. No officer even drew their sidearm. They used batons to disarm him. Today's police training would have called for him to be shot the moment he came within 30 feet of a cop.