A Rare Look Inside Police Training in Utah | "Shots Fired" | FRONTLINE
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Publicado 2021-11-23
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In Utah, there’s no source that tracks police shootings statewide. The Salt Lake Tribune and FRONTLINE have been working together through FRONTLINE’s Local Journalism Initiative to fill that gap and to go a step further: Building on years of the Tribune’s earlier reporting on police violence, the team has been trying to understand the patterns and factors involved when Utah police fire their weapons.
In some cases, the data is incomplete and the numbers too small to draw broad conclusions. But in the reporting team’s review of 226 Utah police shootings over the past decade, a few things stood out. More than half of the shootings were fatal, and the vast majority were ruled justified. Racial and ethnic minorities were disproportionately represented among the people at whom police fired. More than 40 percent of people shot at were identified by police or families to have had a mental health issue, a mental disability or to have been suicidal.
And over and over again, when talking about why they fired, officers referenced their training.
This excerpt from the documentary “Shots Fired” offers a rare look inside police training in Utah, examining how it may impact whom, when and why officers shoot, and exploring why a focus on worst-case scenarios in training has become increasingly controversial among experts concerned about police shootings.
“Shots Fired” is the first nationally broadcast documentary stemming from FRONTLINE’s Local Journalism Initiative, an innovative effort to support and strengthen investigative reporting in communities around the country that's funded by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and based out of FRONTLINE’s newsroom at GBH in Boston.
“Shots Fired” premieres Nov. 23, 2021 on FRONTLINE: to.pbs.org/3CPE7cZ
For more reporting in connection with this investigation with our Local Journalism Initiative partner The Salt Lake Tribune, visit FRONTLINE’s website: to.pbs.org/3CPE7cZ
“Shots Fired” is a FRONTLINE production with Five O’Clock Films. The writer, producer and director is FRONTLINE/Hollyhock filmmaker-in-residence Abby Ellis. The reporters are Taylor Eldridge, Paighten Harkens, Jessica Miller, Muna Mohamed and Sam Stecklow. The senior producer is Frank Koughan. The executive producer of FRONTLINE is Raney Aronson-Rath.
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FRONTLINE’s Local Journalism Initiative is funded with support from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Additional support for “Shots Fired” by the Hollyhock Foundation.
Todos los comentarios (21)
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remember, "officer safety" comes first not "citizen safety".
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That’s why calling the police is no longer an option.
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This kind of training is creating trigger happy police officers, not what you want at all.
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If a cop was just spinning his weapon they’d call it losing positive control of the weapon. If a person was spinning a gun on a table all of a sudden its called pointing the gun at you. That instructor is crazy
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It's nice to know that we're not viewed as citizens, but as enemy combatants.
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"every situation we send our officers in, doesn't require lethal force" but hopefully , with this training, we can get up to 99% lethal force in every situation.
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Half of the trainees looked like they were in disbelief after being told to "deprioritize empathy." Sickening.
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“stop the threat, not to hurt someone” also the red thumb guy a couple minutes later shaming the guy for not shooting someone. cops should de-escalate not just shoot and kill.
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This is fucking disgusting. The fact he dehumanised the mentally ill person in the role play in order to justify shooting them without any single attempt to de-escalate the situation is VERY telling.
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Their literally in a class teaching them how to deal with a mental health call and he’s trying to teach them to kill that person. He even dehumanises them calling them a “mental subject”.
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Insane that less than a handful days of this type of training is given vs none of de-escalation. No wonder the US has the shoot first mentality and high death rate.
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Logic dictates that if you train people for the 1% of scenarios, you were not training them to recognize the 99%. It’s not an all or nothing. Perhaps officers that cannot recognize the 99% of non-violent encounters should not be expected to handle even more risky scenarios.
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5 to 6 days of training is insane smh
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Officer safety is not the first priority. They should not be trained for that.
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In the military, on the battlefield, soldier safety is the least concern. The number one concern is the mission. I'm not criticizing police; I'm just saying if they put the mission of protecting the public over their personal safety wouldn't there be less police brutality?
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Dude really said you're in the wrong profession if you can't extrajudicially murder someone after less than a month of training, lol. This goddamn country.
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did everyone see that? she shot someone with their hands up......unbelievable....
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Awesome, our cops are being trained to view grandmas and kids as enemy combatants. Very cool guys, great job.
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When I was 16, I once had a cop point a gun at me in my own front yard. They weren't responding to a call or anything. Just walked up on me, pointed a gun, figured nothing was wrong, and left. Psychos.
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If you're putting your own well-being of ahead of the public's that you're getting paid to protect and serve... Maybe you should rethink about becoming a cop... 'Nuff said!!!...
