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>>As an aside, I appreciate like 90% of the work the police do. This would not be needed to be said if 1. There was a proper process to remove bad actors from
by syshum 5y ago
>>As an aside, I appreciate like 90% of the work the police do.
This would not be needed to be said if
1. There was a proper process to remove bad actors from the force
2. If we did not over criminalize society to the point that every person needs to fear the police because chances are the police could find some law or regulation you have violated to ruin your day, week or life.
- NoImmatureAdHom 5y ago1. There are proper processes, it's just that they're under-used and the bar for removal is too high. I agree we should be actively filtering out bad apples much more than we are. I think we should raise the bar in general--cops, like schoolteachers, are really important to our societies and therefore they should have higher status and pay, commensurate with education, than they do. 2. This is a huge problem, you're right. We should maybe have a process for reviewing laws that have been on the books for a while. Maybe an automatic sunset: Every new law has a 7-year sunset provision. In 7 years after being passed, it automatically goes away UNLESS the legislature actively does something to renew it. Also drugs, of course--end the war on drugs.
- syshum 5y ago1. Depends, there are plently of Officers, and Plenty of Teachers that make decent money. This idea that we under pay all teachers, and all police is just a lie told by the public sector unions. Many of the police in my area are many 3-4x the per capital income for the region. 2. I prefer a Jefferson view that all laws should expire Automatically, forcing the legislature to renew them if they want to keep them. The number of laws that have been removed from the books absent an expire clause is pretty low. Jefferson thought the constitution itself should have to be affirmed every 19 years