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applegrove

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12. Does the right want knee jerk reactors as police rather than people who can

Reply to TreasonousBastard (Original post)

Sun Jun 14, 2020, 06:28 PM

Jun 2020

think on their feet? The better to keep the police in the fold of the right as they lower wages and crash relations with the people in more poverty who see more crime. Is it "skinny policing" that serves to make everything not upper middle class - shitty?

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Police departments are not looking for smart cops... [View all] TreasonousBastard Jun 2020 OP

Do you have any data that suggests this is widespread? PTWB Jun 2020 #1

Not really. This is not the sort of thing that gets reported or studied a lot. TreasonousBastard Jun 2020 #3

When I was in high school... Alacritous Crier Jun 2020 #2

I have never heard of this in any other field Lulu KC Jun 2020 #4

Not specifically for IQ but Disaffected Jun 2020 #5

I Agree ProfessorGAC Jun 2020 #8

I have seen highly competent foreign born technical people Blue_true Jun 2020 #14

It happens. I have a degree in mathematics... Buckeye_Democrat Jun 2020 #15

I should have been more clear in my question Lulu KC Jun 2020 #16

I read somewhere the average starting salary for cops and school teachers were about the same Baclava Jun 2020 #6

There was a court case a number of years back backscatter712 Jun 2020 #7

They're probably grooming them in the schools malaise Jun 2020 #9

This is interesting. totodeinhere Jun 2020 #10

The NYPD does encourage its officer to go to school. There are special programs at... TreasonousBastard Jun 2020 #11

Does the right want knee jerk reactors as police rather than people who can applegrove Jun 2020 #12

The police have been militarized. roamer65 Jun 2020 #13

Proof of your post right here: Solomon Jun 2020 #17

This message was self-deleted by its author Solomon Jun 2020 #18

This actor just talked about a similar experience he had trying to become a cop GusFring Jun 2020 #19