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ButteryMales posted...

Derek Chauvin was the senior and he was training his officers to kill people like Derek did to Floyd.

My statement still stands. Experience and learning in real life scenarios is important; more so than education alone. You can sit in a classroom all day but until you get out there and apply what you learned in real scenarios, you only know part of the job.

That's why keyboard warriors are annoying to listen to when they know the outcome of an incident and judge an officer's actions when they know what happened and the circumstances days after it occurred. Being in the moment, dealing with people you don't know that may or may not be trying to hurt or kill you affects your decision making as the incident evolves.

Degrees are good for the paperwork and computer side of the job. Getting out there and doing the job is different. Defunding isn't the answer.

If they keep hurting and taking away from police forces, then good cops like me are outta here. Attack us for doing our job correctly and still suing us isn't gonna keep good cops. Eliminating qualified immunity will eliminate good cops. If that goes away in my state, I'm out. Totality of the circumstances is everything in this job.

I promise I don't wake up and think "hmm, I wonder if I'm gonna use my gun today." All I think about is coming back home to my family at this point.

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