"When applying to be a police officer if you score too high in testing , you are omitted from the program and not allowed to go any further ... they don't hire highly intelligent people ."


 I don't know what police programs you have been involved in but this, at least in the hundreds I have seen over the years would be incorrect.  Over the past decade I have seen a shift towards requiring 4 or higher year degrees with no alternatives including military service.

 I know a theoretical physicist, chemist, and military intelligence analyst that have been actively recruited to work in law enforcement.  These guys are not below average intelligence by any means.  I have personally seen many people fail the programs because they were not able to complete the classroom portions.  The second group of failures come from a lower ability to engage in accurate quick-decision making.

Marco12356 wrote on 08/21/22 at 14:21:48:


This is like a baseball game when a batter hits a double and a home run but also strikes out badly twice.

It only takes 8 months of training to become a police officer ! In most parts of Europe it's two years , that's why the US and Canada are having so many problems with police brutality .

Police recruitment is at its all time low ... So now they have to lower the bar even more .

Now they are hiring more smaller women to become cops on top of it , how is a 120 female going to handle a 230 lb guy .

They are hiring the bottom of the barrel .... I saw a video a few years ago of California police shooting dogs from animal shelters that were going to be euthanized so they use them as target practice at the California police gun range . They were all laughing their asses off thinking it was the greatest thing ever ..... This is police culture now .... Sadists !

It would be nice if temperatures could come down a couple of notches (figuratively and literally).
I remember those days when cops didn't have to carry AR15's and wear bulletproof vests.
The stress load they carry today is way higher than 20 or 30 years ago.
I don't forgive some of the things they're doing, but I do see the stress that leads to it.
They're in a war zone every day.

 "Copsplaning I love it"

 Obviously people reading about cops on the internet and watching TV know how it really is.


"A police officer's job is not even in the top 25 most dangerous jobs in the world ."

 Physically.

 The emotional impact is rather high.  LEO suicide is at an all time high.

 Child abuse cases were in the double digits this week alone at the medical center I work in.  Multiple sexual assaults, multiple domestic violence etc.  The amount of things that go on that most people never hear about is astounding.

 Not one cop was physically harmed this week.  Does seeing a child with bite marks on her genitalia have negative emotional impact?  Yes.  Also not one cop had less than a 4 year degree.  Are there jerks on the force?  Yes.  Are all cops everywhere jerks?  No.  

 
 "The government is militarizing the police which is unnecessary  If all you have is a hammer ,everything else looks like a nail"

 I agree here.  A ton of military veteran hired into LEO and surplus equipment contributed to this as well.  Why buy new firearms when the government has surplus?

and surplus equipment contributed to this as well.  Why buy new firearms when the government has surplus?


This administration doesn't believe in this..........

Best regards,

https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/27/politics/afghan-weapons-left-behind/index.html

We left 7 billion behind, I believe that supports my position.

US military equipment and weapons left behind
Aircraft worth $923.3 million remained in Afghanistan. The US left 78 aircraft procured for the government of Afghanistan at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul before the end of the withdrawal. These aircraft were demilitarized and rendered inoperable before the US military left, the report states. The US military conducted its non-combatant evacuation from Afghanistan in August, primarily through that airport.

A total of 9,524 air-to-ground munitions, valued at $6.54 million, remained in Afghanistan at the conclusion of the US military withdrawal. The "significant majority" of the "remaining aircraft munitions stock are non-precision munitions," the report states.
Over 40,000 of the total 96,000 military vehicles the US gave to Afghan forces remained in Afghanistan at the time of the US withdrawal, including 12,000 military Humvees, the report states. "The operational condition of the remaining vehicles" in Afghanistan is "unknown," the report states.

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More than 300,000 of the total 427,300 weapons the US gave to Afghan forces remained in Afghanistan at the time of the US military withdrawal, according to the report. Less than 1,537,000 of the "specialty munitions" and "common small arms ammunition," valued at a total of $48 million, are still in the country, the report states.

"Nearly all" of the communications equipment that the US gave to Afghan forces, including base-station, mobile, man-portable and hand-held commercial and military radio systems, and associated transmitters and encryption devices also remained in Afghanistan at the time of the withdrawal, the report states.

"Nearly all" night vision, surveillance, "biometric and positioning equipment" totaling nearly 42,000 pieces of specialized equipment remained in the country, the report adds.
And "nearly all," of the explosive ordinance disposal and demining equipment, including 17,500 "pieces of explosive detection, electronic countermeasure, disposal and personal protective equipment" also remained in Afghanistan, according to the report.

The only silver lining is Marco would probably be more upset if this were given to his buddies.....

Best regards,