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It's like fsloth said earlier in this thread: someone needs to fall. Personally, twice I had FBI field agents as my neighbor, and I while my n=2 can hardly be
by Amygaz 11y ago
It's like fsloth said earlier in this thread: someone needs to fall.
Personally, twice I had FBI field agents as my neighbor, and I while my n=2 can hardly be generalized, my first impression (and you only get one chance to make a good first impression) is that the FBI doesn't get to hire the cream-of-the-crop.
Maybe it's not the staff fault: the FBI seems to be investing a lot more in their PR department than in its departments actually doing the job in the trenches.
- dsr_ 11y agoThe FBI cannot (or does not) pay as well for technical positions as nearly any private position. The background of agents (and, subsequently, management) is in either accounting or "criminal justice", neither one of which is a field noted for reassessment of theory or appraising scientific evidence. As a result, they tend to accept promises of accuracy that line up with their biases, and not dig too deeply into methods.
- ams6110 11y agoThis mindset is common in practitioners. Faith in the process, or the way it's always been done, or the way they were trained. Even in development, it's very common in corporate or government settings to find developers who know the one language and OS that they use, and the one set of patterns they use, and are not very curious about anything else. It's a job.
- rhino369 11y agoFBI gets to hire the cream of the crop for special agents but all other jobs are treated like dogshit. One example is that every non-special agent takes turns emptying garbage cans.