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Texas has at least 38 kinds of police agencies (2009)
- colechristensen 4y agoThis seems perfectly normal.
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- lotsofpulp 4y agoComment by Stephen in Apr 2014 did not age well: > Texas is unique in a since that it has an overwhelming number of “specialized” police officers. City and county police officers are responsible to there locality, however school police are more localized for things like trained more heavily in active shooter scenarios with children present > in a particular situation wouldn’t you want a law enforcer that is extremely knowledgeable in your particular problem?
- sorwin 4y agoIsn't this better...? The more specialized they are, the better training they receive in that field
- feet 4y agoThat must be why the specialized school police saved all those kids from being shot in uvalde
- throwaheyy 4y agoTraining? What? It’s “jobs for the boys” and career protectionism.
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- stjohnswarts 4y agoBeing a resident and somewhat aware of the way state agencies work I suspect this is not the case other than maybe something like 40 hours worth of classes every 5 years or something.
- glonq 4y agoAs a non-American who lived in the US for many years, it always astonished me that they have so many levels of law enforcement. It would be somewhat hypocritical for America[ns] to call other countries "police states".
- nyc_data_geek1 4y agoThat's a lot of overtime
- stevespang 4y ago