> I'd love to see more training for the police officers to help in situations, but I don't see tax payers wanting to pay for it

I don’t think it’s more training they need, but different training (so rather than more money, it’s a matter of spending the money they already have differently).

A whole industry has sprung up of ex-military personnel and LEOs providing training which isn’t far off the sort of thing you’d get for a tour of Afghanistan; unsurprisingly when you train and equip people as if they’re going to a war zone they then act and use that equipment as if they’re in a war zone.