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In Wake of Police Shootings, LAPD Training Program Focuses on Empathy

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The deaths of Eric Garner in New York, Michael Brown in Missouri and now Charly Keunang on Los Angeles' Skid Row have sparked a debate over how officers deal with aggressive suspects. In L.A., some officers are learning to answer angry, hostile people not by reaching for their guns but with a different tactic: slowing down, talking and trying to empathize.

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