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Sheriff: Some Agencies Need to Update Training and Improve Supervision Models

On Saturday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends,” Suffolk County, NY Sheriff Errol Toulon Jr. stated that “training and supervision” are the main reasons “why law enforcement agencies fail.” He added that some agencies used dated training that needs to be removed and supervision models should be improved.

Sheriff Errol Toulon Jr. on 6/6/2020 "Fox & Friends"

Doug Jones: Senate Can Address Police Violence by Incentivizing Independent Investigations of Deadly Force, Improving Training

uring Friday’s Democratic Weekly Address, Sen. Doug Jones (D-AL) touted Senate legislation that would deal with police violence, such as legislation “that would incentivize states to pass laws requiring independent investigations and prosecution of the use of deadly force by police officers, to creating fair and impartial police training.”

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Poll: Public Trust in Local Police Drops, but Slightly

Americans’ confidence in their police departments has barely moved since 2014, even amid the national uproar over the police-caused death of a black man in Minneapolis, according to a June 3 poll by National Public Radio (NPR) and the PBS NewsHouse.

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Washington Post Op-Ed Demands Ban on TV Shows and Movies About Police

A bizarre op-ed at the Washington Post on Thursday commanded Hollywood to cease making movies and television shows about the police, because such entertainment is somehow empowering cops like the one accused of killing George Floyd and preventing Americans from understanding just how awful the police really are.

Ice-T, Mariska Hargitay, and Peter Scanavino in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (NBC, 19