It's tempting to blame the NY Times but the truth is liberals gonna liberal, this is a clear failure of leadership on e part of the Sheriff.
This is a clear statement that the Sheriff does not values the lives or well being of her Deputies.
Sheriff Cancels Calibre Press Training After Public Scrutiny
that the Santa Clara County (CA) Sheriff Laurie Smith has nixed hosting a controversial police-training program that elicited outcry from community watchdogs angry over its purported influence on the officer who shot and killed Philando Castile in Minnesota earlier this month.
The agency was scheduled to host a two-day seminar in mid-August with the “Bulletproof” program by Illinois-based Calibre Press, which has been criticized for training officers to channel their feelings of being under constant threat into overly aggressive policing, with sometimes deadly results.
Officer Jeronimo Yanez, the St. Anthony Police Department officer who shot Castile, underwent the training in 2014.
Sheriff’s officials said they were already moving toward canceling the seminar this week when they were contacted by several Bay Area social justice groups, who pointed to a recent New York Times article that connected the Calibre training with Castile’s fatal shooting during a July 6 traffic stop in Falcon Heights, Minnesota.http://lawofficer.com/2016/08/sherif...blic-scrutiny/Calibre officials contend that they train officers in balancing serving as community “guardians” and then becoming “warriors” when they need to stop a violent threat to the same community.
Law Officer Editor In Chief Travis Yates calls the decision another example of “spineless leadership in a profession that desperately needs real leaders to protect the men and women behind the badge” and that the description of the class is yet another example of lies put forward in an effort to tarnish a great profession.
“Decisions are being made by so called ‘watch dog’ groups when the truth is, they aren’t watching anything. Did they observe the class in question? Did they ask questions or did they simply scream to the media in an effort to control what they know nothing about,” Yates states.