Milwaukee rep wants ban on police ‘warrior training’

(The Center Square) – There would be some major changes to police training in Wisconsin if one Milwaukee state representative gets his way.

State Rep. Darrin Madison, D-Milwaukee, introduced four pieces of legislation that he says would end “nonscientific and dangerous police training practices.”

“Law enforcement budgets are going towards unlicensed, unregulated technology like facial recognition. Our public resources should never be spent on untested, unsecured surveillance methods, or on law enforcement trainings that are grounded in fear and intimidation,” Madison said in a statement.

Specifically, Madison wants new laws to prohibit:

police trainings that include content on “excited delirium,” which he calls “nonmedical term often used to justify police violence and other abuses of authority.”

Madison also wants “warrior-style training” banned. Instead, Madison said he wants

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