The police report in the Roxbury Community College case

...but the officer filing the report graduated in '05.

Swirrly, the Boston Police do everything the MA Criminal Justice Training Council requires them to do like any other MA police agency. Unless you know what they are, you really don't know what you are talking about do you?

I think it's fair to note almost all police reports have standardized language like this. The same is true when a police officer reports the smell of marijuana, they always state they know the smell "based on my training and experience." Don't read too much into that, it's basically if they were asked in court how they knew how to subdue a subject, they can point to the training refereed to in the report and say they've been trained in how to subdue someone... as opposed to saying they just kept punching the kid in the stomach in the report.

Like it or not, body blows, knee strikes, and even kicking a non-compliant suspect, is standard (and legal) procedure nationwide and in most other countries too. Not much has changed over time as a violent resister is still a violent resister no matter what the year. It's step three on the use of force continuum, after officer presence and verbal commands and before pepper spray baton and taser. Sadly but necessarily, police work is a contact sport at times. From what I've seen on video, the officers involved in the RCC arrest did everything by the book and should be commended, not condemned.

http://www.policetest.info/FORCE_CONTINUUM_POLICE_...

I've always found it peculiar that people with no training in surgery, who would never tell a surgeon how to operate, nor tell an electrician how to wire a house, etc. have no problem pontificating, again sans any training, how police work should be conducted. Not only that, but they're quite sure of themselves. It's an interesting phenomenon that deserves further study.