Cdr.Murdock: the whole department needs to be re trained and the culture seriously changed.

As is the case with most law enforcement agencies in this country.  But few departments or politicians seem to want to enact real reforms.  The only high profile case of reform I've heard about was in SLC, where police chief Burbank has been pushing for deescalation during confrontations.

I think the problem is that police departments won't be able to do it on their own since few people in their leadership have the kind of mentality as Mr. Burbank.  They'll begrudgingly push for minor changes at behest of their jurisdiction's leadership or lawsuits from the DOJ, but it won't be something they personally want to accomplish.

It'll require towns, counties and even states to push for rules that require personality testing of new recruits in order to weed out the super-alphas, the bullies and the anti-social types that really shouldn't be in civilian law enforcement.  And they'll need to stand up to police unions and have everyone retested every few years to remove people whose attitudes have degraded to such a point that they're now a liability.