California police shooting

I'm not going to get into to it much because it isn't relevant to this topic but I believe our "War on Drugs" has created a huge problem in our criminal justice system with the extremely harsh sentences for non-violent drug offenses, poor rehabilitation programs, and flooding our prison system with these people while violent felons get reduced sentences. Police officers aren't to blame for that particular problem because it isn't their decision to make, they don't write laws.

You are basically using the "I ran because I was scared" argument which criminals try to use all the time. That argument is always bullshit too. How come law abiding citizens don't get scared and run or fight when they get stopped by the cops? The police don't ask you to do really complicated tasks or have crazy requests, their commands are very simple and straight forward so following them should not be too difficult. They actually cover giving commands in the police academy and instructors will ding you for using confusing or complicated vocabulary when giving commands. They teach officers to give very simple and easy commands to follow and not use weird verbiage.

I used to think that military experience helped a lot with law enforcement before I joined the military, and I still think it does to a certain extent, but I can tell you that weapons training and tactics that is taught in the military is a lot different than law enforcement training and it should be. In the military you are training to fight other militaries, professionally trained soldiers, with different weapons and using squad tactics. These tactics are not always appropriate in law enforcement scenarios, therefore law enforcement comes up with its own tactics on the types of situations they deal with. Does military training and experience help in law enforcement? Yes. Does it make you more qualified or better than officers without military backgrounds? Not necessarily.