Lawsuits are already in progress, but I don’t want to see LEOs use lack of training as an excuse to escape consequences:
For members of marginalized groups, this seems to be helping law enforcement to cast a wider net - enabling harm to even more people. That it’s so bad at the top tier agencies and has trickled down to the local level is chilling. This is why we shouldn’t just accept departments saying they need more tech solutions like this due to staffing problems. Many officers are already getting bad basic training. Now too many seem to be incapable of performing basic background checks or successfully playing “spot the differences between two photos,” so maybe that’s where they should focus training efforts first*.
*Not the usual money grab involving external training from a private company populated by fired former LEOs or led by supporters of hate groups, either.
