Wrongful Convictions and Officer Safety: Shifting the Focus to the Process

These two, separate scenarios involve two completely different areas of police procedures, officer safety, and investigations, and therefore are in no way related, right? Poor street survival tactics led to a near fatal assault, and poor investigative follow-up led to a wrongful conviction. The only way to correct these issues is by separate and distinct training programs, correct? Wrong. While these assumptions may be correct as to specific skill sets involved in each area, they miss the deeper, underlying behavioral cause. These officers were originally given the situational awareness skills necessary to resolve both scenarios before they became a problem; they simply did not use these skills.