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**I saw a program about that, wherein a popular training program run by an independent consultant trains the cops that we (the public) are exactly that: the enemy. A threat. Which makes cops more twitchy in their trigger fingers.I was in LE for nearly 30 years. Admittedly not in a high crime situation. But I had the requisite training and annual refreshers and LOTS of firearms training and firearms qualifications. You better believe that this training primes you to be quick on the trigger. The military learned after WWII, and the evidence that most troops did not target the enemy, that there are techniques that train people to be better killers and police use these techniques now.
So, yes, 'twitchy' trigger fingers is a problem.
Here is an excellent book titled "On Killing" about the problems of getting humans to be efficient killers of their fellow humans and some of the consequences that follow.
en.wikipedia.org - On Killing
