http://www.vice.com/read/albequerque-shooting-james-boyd

It's part of a disturbing trend of police departments gearing up like soldiers and acting like they are in a war zone. Politicians are working feverishly to restrict the rights of citizens to own and use firearms while militarizing law enforcement, some of whom should have been removed from the force years ago but for the blue code of silence. I know we have issues here, especially since HPD isn't required to share their misconduct records. At least it's not as bad as Albuquerque, with two dozen fatal shootings and an estimated $24 million in lawsuit payouts over the past few years.

i saw the video analysis of the Boyd shooting in the news and they shot him as he was turning away from the cops, which is not what they are trained to do, they are trained to shoot if the suspect advances on them in a threatening manner of which the act of turning away clearly is not threatening.  I think they need to train the cops differently, it just seems nowadays that these cops are nothing but trigger happy and far from disciplined when pulling the trigger.  but ya, too many meaningless deaths by cops as of recent.

as far as police misconduct records, i thought that a judge declared that it is unconstitutional to hide those records in a case that was brought by Civil Beat ... this article was from February
http://www.civilbeat.com/articles/2014/02/10/21152-hawaii-judge-orders-police-misconduct-files-to-be-made-public/