De-Escalation Training: Learning to Back Off

The discussion of how to reduce police use of force in the United States did not begin with the outcry that followed the fatal shooting of strong-arm theft suspect Michael Brown by then Ferguson, MO, police officer Darren Wilson in August 2014. But Ferguson and other controversial police encounters with "unarmed" persons and knife-wielding subjects have put a spotlight on police tactics and training and have led to the implementation of policy changes and training in de-escalation tactics at num