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21 states still don't require de-escalation training for police
by Gracie Stockton

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De-escalation training for police can save lives, but more than 20 states in the U.S. don’t require it.



More than six years after a Ferguson, Missouri, police officer killed 18-year-old Michael Brown — sparking protests and a national conversation about police violence — 21 states still don’t require officers to receive ongoing training in techniques to reduce the use of force, an APM Reports analysis has found.



Former President Barack Obama’s 2015 Task Force on 21st Century Policing, established in the aftermath of Brown’s death, called for all officers to receive de-escalation training, which teaches them ways to resolve confrontation without violence. And a growing number of states have heeded that call.



Before Brown’s death in 2014, just eight states required officers to receive de-escalation training. By the end of 2017, 13 more states had added the training, according to an analysis by APM Reports. In the past three years, another eight states did so, bringing the total to 29.



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At the height of pandemic, Kentucky’s Democratic governor eased Covid restrictions despite mounting deaths
by Ryan Van Velzer, Tom Scheck and Suhail Bhat

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When Kentucky’s Democratic governor, Andy Beshear, eased critical Covid-19 restrictions in December, more than twice as many people were dying of the virus as the public knew, and Beshear focused his messaging on an optimistic and incomplete metric that’s been questioned by top health researchers, an investigation by WFPL and APM Reports has found.



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