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>>>People trained by the military to police occupied communities should not be allowed to act as civilian police in peacetime conditions.

I've brought this up before: US law enforcement has a long-established training relationship with Israel. Is it any surprise that American police have a "siege mentality" when they are being trained by a country that is basically dealing with a multi-decade insurgency/hybrid war?

https://progressive.org/dispatches/us-police-trained-by-isra...

>>Capric+(OP)
You're quite right; this is another aspect of the same sort of problem: Police being trained by the military or by military veterans (be they American or foreign.)

When the matter of police training is raised, much consideration is given to the training police aren't receiving but should receive. I think too few consider the matter of training the police are receiving but shouldn't be.