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Venkstesh it is a tragedy by any assessment but rendering a judgement requires more than a short video clip and unconfirmed details. A comprehensive timeline of all actions of all parties, review of dispatch audio, all videos, and interviews of the officers involved... 1/
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...as well as witnesses and a complete forensic assessment of the incident scene, ballistics, and autopsies of all persons killed are needed to start an assessment. This ia complex after action assessment 2/
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The review must look at tactical considerations, including what the involved officers knew and perceived. The actual threat to the hostage, known history of the suspects and their actions. It will also require looking at the actions and direction of watch commander overseeing 3/
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... In addition the agency policy, legal framework, and training of all personnel involved need to be assessed. Then the situation, the tactical decisions made in light of actual existing threat, policy and law can be determined. 4/
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Fairness requires a deliberate and comprehensive inquiry before reaching a conclusion on tactical or legal dimensions of the incident. That assessment should be multi-disciplinary and subject to review. 5/5
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That sounds like solid due process to my non-expert ears but it does seem like public trust in such processes has plummeted for a reason. The perception is that somehow these investigations never seem to either lead to changed tactics or find law enforcement at fault.
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There’s a principal-agent institutional problem here I suppose, where the only people competent to investigate are also the people with most at stake in the outcomes being in a particular direction. Unclear how to create public trust in the process.
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That depends on the jurisdiction and agencies involved. It is common to have a non-involved agency conduct complex use of force reviews. In many cases office involved shootings are reviewed and investigated by district attorneys or prosecutors offices. 1/
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