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The reality is we need fewer, higher paid police with an extremely high barrier to entry. They should be required to go through the kind of training the milita
by holidayacct 6y ago
The reality is we need fewer, higher paid police with an extremely high barrier to entry. They should be required to go through the kind of training the military goes through for months so you see how they react under pressure. They should have people constantly giving them an opportunity to lie, cheat, steal and abuse their position of power to test if they are corrupt in any way. They should be monitored 24/7 and if they do anything that remotely looks suspicious they should be removed from their position of power. They should be required to go through intense training annually to see if they are still psychologically fit to do the job. Finally they should start as peace officers for several years and be required to communicate with people in difficult situations until it is possible to determine if they can be trusted. Everyone else should be put on peace officer duty with no weapons and no authority to do anything but observe and report information. The police don't need the amount of authority and power they have.
- opwieurposiu 6y agoOr just revoke qualified immunity and force them to pay for their own malpractice insurance. The most dangerous will be priced out.
- holidayacct 6y agoI'm not in favor of removing qualified immunity because I have former classmates who are police officers and some of them work in places where they are constantly dealing with violent crime and they occasionally have to things that appear criminal but aren't. They have to spend weeks justifying why they made certain decisions and if they have a pattern of behavior they will lose their jobs. If you speak to really good police officers in an environment where they don't have to worry about retaliation they will tell you directly they don't trust most of the police force where they work. Some of them are more afraid of their co-workers than the people they encounter on the street.
- Meph504 6y agoSure, we do that, and who exactly do you think would be police, I maybe if police officers were compensated at the level of doctors. but you should look at the wages of police officers regardless of their dept. budget, its not like the cops themselves are rolling in cash.
- strictnein 6y ago> "The reality is we need fewer, higher paid police with an extremely high barrier to entry" Fewer may not necessarily be the answer. The US doesn't have a huge number of police compared to other places and crime doesn't somehow disappear if you have fewer police. For example, France has 429 per million, the US has 238. Austria has 314, Netherlands 295. The US is 101 out of 146 of the countries listed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependencies_by_number_of_police_officers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependen...