Study Reveals ‘Crisis’ in New Recruit Police Training Across America

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Study Reveals ‘Crisis’ in New Recruit Police Training Across America

By Stacy M. Brown | NNPA Newswire  (NNPA) – A comprehensive new report asserted that American authorities have traditionally trained police officers on the cheap, noting that more than 71% of agencies devote less than 5% of their total budget to recruit training.Issued by the Police Executive Research Forum (PERF), the report found that nearly half of the agencies responding to the survey agreed that spending on recruit training had increased ov…