Current Events > Great grandfather of student killed in Texas goes off on cops

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This is why residency requirements for cops need to be strongly considered.

"I don't work in this town"

It's not done that way because cops in the past kept on using their personal grudges against neighbors as a justification to harass them. When it comes to cops the only way to actually fix the problems is screening for things other than low intelligence (and I mean that literally, if you are too smart you will get turned away because of the chance of you getting bored).

This is why residency requirements for cops need to be strongly considered.

"I don't work in this town"

Agreed, but your last statement isnt 100 percent factual. That particular statistics refers to one incident 20 years ago from one department on one potential person. Its not actually a hiring standard by any department today. Also, the average IQ of the American police officer is higher than the average IQ of the general American population.

Agreed, but your last statement isnt 100 percent factual. That particular statistics refers to one incident 20 years ago from one department on one potential person. Its not actually a hiring standard by any department today. Also, the average IQ of the American police officer is higher than the average IQ of the general American population.

1. I wasn't saying that it was a 100% for all stations across the nation. I was overgeneralizing.
2. IQ isn't a good metric for anything as it is a relative thing. In this case being smarter than half of the population is trivial when you take even the most basic of glances at the current political climate.

i mean, the bar is ridiculously low

I don't think the problem is that the cops were from out of town. The problem is that they are American police officers.

This is why residency requirements for cops need to be strongly considered.

"I don't work in this town"

"I don't work in this town"

I tested in a pool of 3000, which ended up with 80, I was ranked third. Out of the 80, 23 of us graduated. It was pure hell of 6 months academy.

It really just depends on where you are. Which is part of the problem. There needs to be a federal standard. My friend joined Chicago police around the same time I went to my academy. He was done in a couple months and would send me snap chats of them goofing all day. During field training they would ride 4 trainees in a car with an FTO and be dropped off somewhere. Basically nothing.

I tested in a pool of 3000, which ended up with 80, I was ranked third. Out of the 80, 23 of us graduated. It was pure hell of 6 months academy. I would stay up until 4am. They would make us write policy and laws in my state like in the order of the Phoenix. Just over and over. We would spend hours getting quizzes on laws, having to recite policy and laws verbatim. Like actual paragraphs. All while we got yelled at and disciplined.

We hard written and scenario tests. It was brutal. People quit and fired left and right. My field training was even harder. In took me 2 years from start to finish before I could even sniff a cop car by myself

6 months of academy. It takes more than that to become a licensed barber. That's not even getting into how many hands on hours they need in most states.

I mean, 6 months should be enough time to teach trainees the difference between white and black

I mean, 6 months should be enough time to teach trainees the difference between white and black. The fact that only 23 out of 3000 passed is embarrassing for the American population as a whole, and that this guy placed third? A fucking joke. No wonder the police is in the state it's in.

6 months of academy. It takes more than that to become a licensed barber. That's not even getting into how many hands on hours they need in most states.

Seriously?? Thats pretty hilarious because the bar for me to become a Library Circulation Assistant was literally twice (4x?) as stringent (pool of 6,000; 11 of us hired).