Off-Duty Cop Pulls Gun On Man Buying Mentos, Another Case Of Bad Incentives?

We also hear about officers who are reprimanded for not using lethal force. When in fact, officers usually rely heavily on their weapons instead of on their problem-solving skills. And that is not an opinion, but a fact. And one that can be confirmed when you look at how these officers are trained.
According to the most recent data available, new recruits get eight hours of training on how to deal with conflicts and community policing strategies while they are required to get 60 hours of training in firearm skills and 51 hours in self-defense. In a free market environment where security would be treated as a service, competing firms would have to prove they are not going to resort to lethal violence as a means to deal with a problem. Otherwise, they would lose customers and go out of business.When security is in the hands of the state, they have no incentives to be good. As a matter of fact, they only have incentives to remain irresponsible. The problem, it seems, is that in a setting where individuals are given blanket authority, they are also given immunity.
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