Police use of force legislation often contains edits that reveal how police successfully lobby legislators to let them continue shooting people unnecessarily. For example, here’s a law recently passed in Washington state. Why was this section removed? http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/2019-20/Pdf/Bills/Session%20Laws/House/1064-S.SL.pdf

And here’s what was removed from California’s AB 392 in order to overcome massive police union opposition. These are major, life-saving sections that were stripped from the bill because of the police lobby. https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVersionsCompareClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB392&cversion=20190AB39298AMD

And here’s how the NYPD, America’s finest, changed their deadly force policy. https://twitter.com/samswey/status/987010944336388097?s=21

In reviewing these (and more), it’s clear there are specific things police really *don’t* want to do. They don’t want to be required to de-escalate and really don’t want to be banned from shooting people even when non-lethal alternatives were available. That speaks volumes.