Expert: U.S. Police Training in Use of Deadly Force Woefully Inadequate

In U.S. police department budgets, most funding goes to salaries and equipment, and virtually nothing to training. It's a deadly formula, says Maria Haberfeld of the John Jay College of Criminal Justice.

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