Why Better Training Is Needed

"Police training as it has been traditionally performed cannot re-create the immediacy of the conditions faced by police officers when confronted by lethal threat: Here it is. Right now. Live or die. If you shoot, you will be scrutinized and second-guessed with an eye to punish, not train. If you don't shoot, the individual who shot you because you didn't act quickly and decisively enough will spit on you as you die."

- Police psychologist Lawrence N. Blum in the L.A. Times, January 5, 2009