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