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When police are bad drivers: LAPD crashes kill — and payouts soar past $90 million (www.latimes.com)

submitted 5 months ago by technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/fuckcars@lemmy.world

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Traffic collisions involving police officers that caused severe injuries or deaths have resulted in multiple large payouts due to civil litigation in recent years.

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[–] huppakee@piefed.social 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I once read US police get only get a few months training, if true i would not be surprised they don't drive safer/better as any other guy.

[–] RubberElectrons@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Unfortunately, very true.

https://www.clrn.org/how-long-is-the-police-academy-nypd/

[–] huppakee@piefed.social 4 points 5 months ago

Thanks for sharing. 6 months training of which 30 hours driving an emergency vehicle. I have no clue how effective these classes are and how adequate people feel after 30 hours. Also maybe it's more or less in other places, but either way: if innocent people die while going after guilty people, that's incredibly sad and if that happens time and time again, something in the system is clearly broken.