LogFAQs > #909409621

I know a few cops and other people in law enforcement, and it's worse than you can imagine (at least in the US). Police forces tend to avoid hiring those with a high IQ, as they're more likely to countermand orders, and do things that result in a lot more paperwork and trouble with the city. They want people who will follow orders and not report misdeeds. Even if you don't get nothing but hamfisted morons on the force, there are two major issues with corruption. Internal corruption, where if you report any of it, you are pretty much done as a cop, if not worse, and the personal corruption. This is when your only interactions with people outside of your friends and family are people who are breaking the law, usually in a dangerous way. Police training is bad enough with every officer being having the idea that every suspect is a ninja terrorist drilled into them, but to have that idea reinforced through constant experience? If every time you ran into a person of a particular ethnicity, they were hurting or robbing someone, would you maintain a positive impression of the majority?
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