stands for less lethal carrying things officers can use instead of side arms, a gun that shoots pepper balls and another firing hard foam project aisles. hard foam projectiles. reporter: a recent survey showed 90% of americans reported more training for police and departments nationwide are making changes. in june, the n.y.p.d. the nation s largest police department announced all 35,000 officers will get new de- escalation training. and in san francisco changing training and policies lead to an almost 70% drop in instances of use of force by officers. cops who are being asked to keep the peace while keeping pace with change. kris van cleave, cbs news, aurora, illinois. duncan: still ahead on the cbs weekend news, a new award for best cannabis, no smoking allowed.
uniforms, bdus, tactical vest, body-worn cameras. some has slung long rifles. some had side arms, pistols. some had a combination of both. so after police had that interaction, they said some of the people in those vehicles fled into the woods, and some stayed in the vehicles leading to the standoff we heard about, that now appears to be over with nine arrests in the end, according to police. now, we don t know a lot about the motivations of this group. we did hear that police said this group said the law of the united states didn t apply to them. one of the leaders of the group said that they wanted to make sure he wasn t anti-government, but that the laws didn t apply to him. we heard a question from a reporter at the press conference about a group called rise of the moors, which is a group up in the rhode island and massachusetts area. we re still waiting for more detail on that. it looks like at the moment, a very, very scary situation has been made less scary, but still another
joins us next. we are not trying to take guns away from, you know, law abiding citizens, i personally think side arms, that s your right, that s your protection, you deserve to be able to protect your children in your home but ar-15 is not a necessity.
time when he was still on the first floor. we may not have any casualties on the second or third floor where at least a limited amount of casualties on the second or third floor. he didn t have the proper action that day and didn t go inside the building like he should have. sandra: why do you think that is? it could be a number of things it could be complacency by being in the same unit for too many years or just the type of training. i have said it over and over again. we need to look at ourself, learn from this incident and possibly come up with new tactics. we have a training division that does wonderful things with a very limited amount of resources with 887-million-dollar budget we don t even have our own gun range. but, in instances like this, obviously overmatched with fire power. mr. cruz had ar-15. they are carrying side arms on that. i hate to think that a program we used to have here in the broward county sheriff s office called a loner gun program for over 40 years dep
away a little bit. then he would come back. it looked like he was just spraying. we had a gap where he reloaded, it took them a lot longer the last time. we just did a full on sprint and did not stop until we reached two blocks away. jon: was there any indication? police with their side arms, even if they had known where he was firing from, it would have been all one in a million shot to be able to take him out. was there any indication that it was coming from the mandalay bay? did you see any flashes or things like that? no, it was that far away. now i m looking at the video i guess they found him through the smoke detectors from when i am hearing. no. i knew that it was coming from that general direction, but to be honest with you i thought he was on the ground and slowly moving forward through the event space. we did not know he was across the street. it makes sense if he broke