According to the report, titled "Transforming Police Recruit Training: 40 Guiding Principles," training standards for the more than 18,000 police agencies in the U.S. are outdated and inconsistent, and often provide training that is too brief -- with an emphasis on weapons and tactics and too little focus on decision-making, communications and other critical thinking skills that officers use every day.
"Almost every major aspect of policing has fundamentally changed in recent decades, except for one: how we train officers," the report states.
Police training in the U.S. is most often measured in weeks, while in many other countries it is measured in months or years…
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