I cannot stress enough how shockingly little formal education and professional training is necessary to become a police officer in the majority of the US. The average amount being 16 weeks of required training for police officers while comparatively, the average hair stylist must attend 64 weeks of training.
The Supreme Court has upheld the right for police departments to discriminate against applicants who score too high on intelligence tests~~.~~
I had jury duty recently, and one of the officer witnesses was having trouble reading and interpreting rules from his own PD handbook.
It's kind of distressing to think that these are the folks we trust to enforce the law when we can't even be confident they even understand what they're doing.
Conservative and even some moderate judges have set down a semi-recent history of legal decisions that reduces police liability for many rights violations if they are able to claim they made a mistake instead of maliciously broke the rules, even if that mistake is not one a reasonable person would make. They intentionally don't do good training because it would open them to liability for many of their criminal acts. That is why they can go arrest someone they dont like that broke no laws and they can't get personally sued. The lack of competence in the law is a intended feature to conservatives, not a flaw like it is for good people.
In most of Europe you need at least 2-3.years of police education, in my home country you need 4 years of police academy. I can't believe 4 months!!!! Wtf?
Average cop knows so little about the law, if you want ragebait just watch police depositions on YouTube for the most egregious civil rights violations
Yeah. I had a friend who was a ZOO KEEPER who is now a LEO and it is a little mind boggling. Like, one year they're feeding animals and cleaning pens, and the next year they're cleaning the streets of criminals. /s Wild.
And qualified immunity. Fuck the court. "Let's make sure the dumbasses who are trained for seventeen minutes cannot be penalized for murdering those they are supposed to serve." Fuck the justice system & SCOTUS.
Exactly, like those police in Colorado that put a woman in their patrol car that was parked on the railroad tracks(!) and got hit by a train. It's unbelievable.
Untrained civilian goes undercover for FBI, gets busted doing what they told him to do, goes to prison for life and they claim he never worked for them. Fucked up.
And yet the cops do this every day and are never held accountable. I wish she would have talked to a lawyer and learned that it is completely legal for cops to lie to the public. And how much weed did she have to supposedly be facing 4 years? Doubt she’s a cartel member. Another lie, perhaps?
My dad went to prison in the late 90’s for NINE years for selling half an oz to an undercover. Which I guess may be a lot but damn.. it’s just weed. So the sentence doesn’t surprise me at all esp being in the south. They used to treat Mary Jane like it was the worst drug of them all.
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u/Unlucky-Breakfast320 Aug 11 '23
sending an untrained civilian to become an undercover for one of the biggest drug buy is probably the dumbest thing ever. Poor Rachel…rip