article_snippet.sent: Recent reports about the shootout in Watertown that Friday night in 2013 show a disorganized and often unnecessarily dangerous response during the manhunt.
article_snippet.sent: It is truly remarkable there were not more significant friendly fire casualties beyond the wounding of Massachusetts Transit Police Officer Richard Donohue as more and more police officials came to the town and failed to fall into place in what should ideally be a very delineated command structure.
article_snippet.sent: What is clear -- in Watertown and in so many other police departments -- is that our police officers are not adequately trained for the kind of weapons that our police officers have now.
article_snippet.sent: That is a dangerous gap, and too many police departments are failing to address it.