WHY? Part of the DOJ BCPD report was the lack of training for de-escalation especially dealing with people who are mentally ill.<\/p>\n
BCPD now train in ICAT.\u00a0 More about the program the LINK:<\/a><\/p>\n Integrating Communications, Assessment, and Tactics, or ICAT, is a use-of-force Training Guide designed to fill a critical gap in training police officers in how to respond to volatile situations in which subjects are behaving erratically and often dangerously but do not possess a firearm.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Could the public use some training on DE-Escalation?<\/strong>\u00a0 The numbers in the USA General Population – say 43 million seek treatment for mental illness every year.<\/p>\n Many homicides\u00a0are due to disputes that\u00a0get out of hand<\/strong>.\u00a0 Look at Baltimore Homicides, not all victims or perps have a record, some kill over simple disputes.<\/p>\n The notion that Police are trying to kill people<\/strong> is not justified by the actual numbers. There is now a focus on ICAT like training in Baltimore City 80 hrs of training.<\/p>\n Policing the teen brain<\/strong>– a very interesting study with positive outcomes for the Police and the citizens.<\/p>\n The link to the Study\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n THE ICAT training guide is available at this link.<\/a><\/p>\n Look at facts and the truth is apparent, methods with scientific results are being used and police agencies are being\u00a0trained.\u00a0 Training takes time and money.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" DE-ESCALATION The idea that Government, Police and the public are unaware of injustice by a few is not true and this bit of information should\u00a0point out the powers of Government Continue Reading \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":325,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1447","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skidome.org\/firearm2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skidome.org\/firearm2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skidome.org\/firearm2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skidome.org\/firearm2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skidome.org\/firearm2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1447"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/skidome.org\/firearm2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1453,"href":"https:\/\/skidome.org\/firearm2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1447\/revisions\/1453"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skidome.org\/firearm2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skidome.org\/firearm2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/skidome.org\/firearm2\/wp-content\/uploads\/mentalhealth-300x240.jpg\")
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