Improve Training for Police Officers

The Institute for Criminal Justice Training Reform is the nation’s only nonprofit advocacy organization solely dedicated to increased, improved and regulated training for U.S. law enforcement and criminal justice employees. 

While each state has some training requirements for law enforcement, there are no federally mandated training minimums for our nation’s police. The consequences of bad training can be the loss of life, serious injury, disability or incarceration. Decisions by insufficiently trained officers can have a disastrous impact on families and the communities in which they live. Finally, poor training creates higher liabilities to police departments resulting in large amounts of economic waste – which is passed on to taxpayers.

We submit that killing more than a 1,050 people a year and devastating scores of families at enormous costs to communities and our nation, are not metrics by which any serious profession could credibly resist training reform.