Allow me to expand on what you stated. I am somewhat involved as I see baby cops come through our academy.
First this is sort of a side bar to the thread in the loss of these officers and is in no way ment as an opinion on them it’s not.
The problem is we are in a no cop left behind era. Where the standards are lowered and it’s more about getting cops through than weeding bad ones out.
30 years ago if you didn’t pass any phase of an academy you were gone now they just say “your a good boy/girl go back to your agency and we’ll do remedial” (true story I witnessed it)
Then the FTO program is a joke they use to try and get you to quit but as administrations change cops are afraid to get into phisical use of force because they will get ostracized by the administration were it use to be expected your gonna have a physical fight to get some folks in cuffs. Why a lot of incidents leap into shootings (usually bad shootings because of firearms training shortfalls that’s another thread)
If enough physical force is used early enough it usually shuts down the incident.
Factor in also is I have seen a lot of old and young cops seem to be cosplay cops and want all the attaboys and glory and hero worship from the masses without the dealing with the hard stuff that comes with real crime fighting.
But that probably needs a separate thread!