Officers Trained in Kindness to Reduce Cop Killings

Controversial training program called L.E.E.D. aims to keep officers safer


Dan Springer/FoxNews.com | Thursday, June 23, 2011

As cop killings spike in the U.S., police departments in the Pacific Northwest are training officers to be kinder, hoping it will make cops safer.

Eighty-eight law enforcement officers have been killed in the line of duty so far this year, 38 of them by gunfire. It’s a 41 percent increase over the same period in 2010.
 

To read the full story, visit www.foxnews.com/us/2011/06/22/cop-killings-up-new-training-stresses-kindness.




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