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>We 100% benefit by moving the power up the chain from uneducated people to educated people. Most cops are college educated? >They will have biases, but not t
by Loughla 7y ago
>We 100% benefit by moving the power up the chain from uneducated people to educated people.
Most cops are college educated?
>They will have biases, but not the same ones police have and far less racist or sexist ones.
I honestly am going to need citations for that statement.
>Your average engineer is far more intelligent and introspective than your average police though.
Again, this is nothing more than a magical belief. There is nothing about the field of engineering that makes the people doing it inherently better than other fields.
I'll say it again, all you do is shift the biases from a publicly accountable (in theory) position to something hidden behind a corporation and unaccountable to the public. This is not a solution, it's just a shell game.
- chuckgreenman 7y agoMost cops are college educated, however, let's not kid ourselves, a BS in criminal justice is a little different than a BS in engineering.
- therealdrag0 7y agoYa they probably are a little different... a BS in CJ probably included more liberal arts and sociology classes that forced the student to think and talk about things like race and class, and looked at specific historical examples of social injustice etc. The engineer rolled their eyes at the required non-degree classes.
- jfk13 7y agoAt least the cop and the engineer have BS in common, apparently. As an "engineer" myself, I don't think my peers are in general much better or wiser people than the rest of the world, and I'm not at all comfortable with implicitly handing them an ever-increasing level of power within our society.