Police are out of control. It’s time to hit them where it hurts: their budgets
I&#x27;d say it is two fold but the primary change needs to be in their training.  Stop the military style training, tactics and supplies.  Stop all the military threat engagement and move more towards the social worker style of training.  No I don&#x27;t mean make cops all defenseless, but the fact is over the last 30 years we have militarized our police and forgotten to teach them to use their words to disarm people and instead given them more and more training on how to get physical with people.<p>Cops are literally trained how to yell and how to intimidate people and given military style equipment and training -- so what do we expect them to do??  How about instead, we teach them to use their compassion and voice to reason with the vast majority of people.  No not all problems can be resolved with compassion and reason, some require a gun and someone willing to use it, but we shouldn&#x27;t start there.  It is called escalation of violence&#x2F;force and police used to be trained to prevent it, anymore it feels as though they are the ones to escalate resolvable problems into all out fights.<p>I am not saying all cops are bad, there are a huge number which will first use their words and compassion, the problem is as a group, it feels like those who will use their brain first are no longer the majority.