A reader is pressed for time when it comes to reading press releases:
Did that say anything of substance? Or unexpected? :-p
Sure. It said St. Anthony police spend more time on continuing training than do police in Minnesota do generally, and that its responsibilities are unique and require all that extra training.
Which leaves us with the question of why is Mr. Castile still dead?
Apparently the sheer number of hours spent in training is well beyond criticism, no? So we must cast our nets elsewhere – poor training, so they just wasted a lot of money? Poor attitudes towards blacks? They didn’t really seem to deal with those issues, especially not the first.
So it’s self-promotion dressed up in numbers, without any attempt to really drive at what went wrong, why they failed so horribly. Either the press release is a failure, or is unnecessary.
