Is a municipality liable for failing to properly train a police officer?

[municipality], for the officer's shortcomings may have resulted from factors other than a faulty training program." City of Canton, 489 U.S. at 390-91. Moreover, "adequately trained officers may occasionally make mistakes; the fact that they do says little about the training program or the legal basis for holding the [municipality] liable." Id. at 391. Accordingly, "absent evidence of a 'program-wide inadequacy in training,' any shortfall in a single officer's training 'can only be classified as negligence on the part of the municipal defendant - a much lower standard of fault than deliberate indifference.'" Blankenhorn, 485 F.3d at 484-85 (quoting Alexander v. City & County of S.F., 29 F.3d 1355, 1367 (9th Cir. 1994)).

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