I have him at gunpoint.Īgain, I tell him, “Please put down the knife sir.”īut I don’t shoot. Soon he’s slowly advancing toward me with the knife. “Sir, can you put down the knife please,” I say. He then reaches into his bag and pulls out a knife. As soon as I show up he unleashes a profanity-laced tirade. When it’s my turn in the simulator, I confront a mentally ill homeless man who’s trespassing on a vacant lot. For example, how a white officer might view a black person differently. And starting this year all current troopers will be trained in implicit or unconscious bias. New troopers are also now trained in crisis intervention. But whenever possible their goal should be to de-escalate. ‘How is this going to look if this happens?’” Bauer says.īauer says what he tries to impart on new troopers is they must be willing to use deadly force if necessary. “They have been watching the news, they’ve been watching things unfold throughout America and that is something that comes in in every class they ask those questions.
And in this day and age, newly minted officers know they’re going to be under the microscope - especially if they resort to deadly force.īauer says it’s a constant topic of conversation with new recruits. It’s split second decisions like these that officers have to train for. “When says, ‘oh, he’s got a gun,’ there still isn’t a reason to shoot at that point because I haven’t validated whether or not that’s true,” Johnson says.
This time within seconds of arriving on the scene Johnson pulls her gun and shoots after a citizen suddenly warns her the man is armed.Īnd Johnson immediately realizes her mistake. In the next scenario, the officer must confront a despondent man in a pickup truck who’s just been fired from his job. “You did a really good job in this scene of acknowledging that he did have a weapon in his hand right away, you did try to initiate a conversation and you tried to do a little bit of de-escalation by commenting on his motorcycle which is very, very good things that we’re looking for,” Bauer says. In the scenario Officer Johnson has been shot dead.Įven so she gets some praise from Corporal Mitchell Bauer, one of the academy trainers. The man puts down the hammer and pulls out a sawed-off shotgun and starts blasting away. Could you put your weapon down for a moment please, we just want to have a chat. “I didn’t do anything wrong,” says a voice in the video simulator. He then picks up a hammer and things quickly get out of hand. The life-like scene shows a bearded man revving his motorcycle in his garage as an annoyed neighbor looks on. She’s also a member of a newly formed legislative task force on police deadly force.Īs Johnson steps into the shoes of a police officer, the scenario she responds to is a noise complaint in a neighborhood. Johnson is a founding member of the Black Alliance of Thurston County - a group created after a white Olympia police officer shot and wounded two African-American brothers. is about to experience the highly realistic simulator. Instead it’s meant to test an officer’s de-escalation tactics and decisions about when to use deadly force. But this program isn’t designed to measure bias. The actors in the video scenarios are different races. Inside five, large video screens form a 300-degree computer-generated environment. That was on the mind of a black community leader in Washington state as she strapped on a gun belt and took aim inside a state-of-the-art training simulator for police.Īt the Washington State Patrol Academy in Shelton, Corporal Lori Hinds guides a pair of visitors into what looks like a walk-in video game.
If all this sounds interesting to you, or if you just want to relive the nostalgia of the classic farming sims, do give Stardew Valley a try.The recent police shootings of African-American men in Louisiana and Minnesota have reignited the debate over use of deadly force.
If you get bored by the more pacific aspects of the game, there also exists a dungeon, where you get to slay monsters, collect loot, and uncover mysteries. Also unlike real life, you can restart from a save point if you say or do something stupid. It is like real life, except a lot more fun and interesting. In addition to that, you also get to socialise with the villagers, earn money, and woo a partner to get married. You get to expand your farmhouse, raise animals, catch fish, mine, craft machines, and much more. You inherit your grandfather’s overgrown farm in Stardew Valley, and must live off the land to make it a thriving home using hand-me-down tools. Stardew Valley is a farming simulator, the spiritual successor to the classic Harvest Moon franchise that the fans always wanted, but never received. If you were around during the SNES era, you might be thinking to yourself, “Wow, this game looks like a successor to Harvest Moon!” and you would be correct.
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