Current Events > Police departments spending public money on Tomi Lahren speeches

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/01/26/police-training-reform/

Lee Greenwoods God Bless the USA screamed from the casino conference room speakers as hundreds of police officers stood to welcome Tomi Lahren with cheers and whistles.

The 29-year-old political commentator was the most anticipated presenter at the Street Cop Training Conference in Atlantic City in October, pumping up officers at a time when shootings by police, especially of Black civilians, have fueled calls for a rethinking of public safety and most Americans doubt police are adequately trained to avoid using excessive force. Lahren offered a starkly different worldview, one in which Black Lives Matter activists are thugs, felons and criminals and a terrorist organization, and Democrats are instilling violent chaos in an effort to nationalize policing and restrict individual freedoms.

If Im wrong, please point it out, she told a crowd that organizers said numbered more than 1,000, from police departments large and small across New Jersey and beyond. But all these major headline incidents that weve had in this country involving law enforcement in the last at least five years could have all been prevented if people would just comply with police, would follow orders and not resist arrest.

The audience of law enforcement officers clapped and cheered.

Such rhetoric is flourishing in commercial police training settings, a Washington Post investigation shows, as departments try to respond to demands for change but also find themselves on the defensive in many communities.

With local, state and federal money for training plentiful, and with little guidance or oversight for what officers should be taught, some speakers at training conferences tell officers that pushback against conventional policing is a media invention. Others demonize civilian protesters and reformers, describing them as loud voices holding minority opinions. Still others say police should maintain a warrior mentality to weather the rigors of what they describe as the most dangerous job outside of military service. (In reality, law enforcement is the 22nd most dangerous occupation, safer than roofing and collecting garbage, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries.) Trainers include many former law enforcement officers and military personnel, some of whom are linked to extremist groups and anti-government movements.

To understand what officers are being taught, The Post interviewed 18 trainers and experts, watched recorded sessions of the Street Cop Training Conference in October and joined the Cornelius Project, a Christian ministry focusing on mental health in law enforcement, at a November conference in Idaho Falls, Idaho. In some cases, police and sheriffs departments paid for their officers to attend the conferences. In others, officers covered the cost. While police reformers and legislators nationwide have stressed a service-oriented approach to police training that emphasizes de-escalation and the avoidance of physical conflict, many sessions at these conferences presented violent confrontation as a rite of policing and, frequently, the only path.

The curriculum is that you are a good person and reveling in violence and being an expert in violence is not morally wrong, said Michael Sierra-Arvalo, an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Texas at Austin who attended the Street Cop Conference. In fact, its your moral duty because youre a paladin. You are this kind of warrior.

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But all these major headline incidents that weve had in this country involving law enforcement in the last at least five years could have all been prevented if people would just comply with police, would follow orders and not resist arrest.

Explain to me how that would have stopped what happened to Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, the guy who got shot because the officer accidentally grabbed a gun instead of a taser, or the one where the police officer went into the wrong apartment because she thought it was hers, Tomi.

Infuriating.

Fuck this country

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RchHomieQuanChi posted...

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Excuse me, sir, that is a huge insult to Kraft M&C which is delicious in its own right. Tomi's more like week old mac & cheese made from bargain brand pasta and Velveeta.

Surprised no one on CE defending this

Bro is this why darkprince spams the shit outta that fascist all the time?

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jumi posted...

Explain to me how that would have stopped what happened to Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, the guy who got shot because the officer accidentally grabbed a gun instead of a taser, or the one where the police officer went into the wrong apartment because she thought it was hers, Tomi.

Or thr drunk guy who was crawling on the floor trying to play Simon Says, or the one who mentioned he had a gun in the car and then was ordered to reach for his ID

TendoDRM posted...

Excuse me, sir, that is a huge insult to Kraft M&C which is delicious in its own right. Tomi's more like week old mac & cheese made from bargain brand pasta and Velveeta.

nah Kraft is disgusting when you've had the real thing cooked correctly

I met Demetria Obilor at SXSW a few years ago

Antifar posted...

Trainers include many former law enforcement officers and military personnel, some of whom are linked to extremist groups and anti-government movements.

ok I really don't get this part, why are law enforcement / military involved with anti-government when they're basically as government as it gets

kirbymuncher posted...

ok I really don't get this part, why are law enforcement / military involved with anti-government when they're basically as government as it gets

Former to be fair. They can easily grift those movements for money since they were "the system" so they can spew whatever and get paid.

kirbymuncher posted...

ok I really don't get this part, why are law enforcement / military involved with anti-government when they're basically as government as it gets

because a large chunk of them are power tripping assholes fresh out of the military where they were trained to shoot random civilians for "nation building" reasons. they've got the mentality that anything they do is for the betterment of "america" even if it involves overthrowing the legally elected officials.