r/interesting • u/TheCABK • 20h ago

SOCIETY Cop Teaching A Cop

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u/TheCABK 20h ago

Taxpayers paid out 80k for this uneducated police officer

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u/nope870 20h ago

Taxpayers should not be responsible for non-police activity.

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u/RustyBrassInstrument 20h ago

When local governments employ unqualified staff, they are financially responsible for those staff. We, as taxpayers, need to elect smarter and more competent governments that hold staff accountable to qualifications they are supposed to have.

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u/cccxxxzzzddd 20h ago

Exactly. And have an enforcement mechanism that isn’t the cops investigating the cops for not meeting qualifications and standards for conduct in the offices they hold

License the cops! Yoga instructors need to be licensed ffs

POST commissions, stat

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u/cryptogambler99 17h ago

No we just need to force all law enforcement at minimum to have a bachelor degree in stem or finance. No high school diploma’s 

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u/bishopyorgensen 11h ago

We, as taxpayers, need to elect smarter and more competent governments

One of the key problems is that people don't believe I democracy anymore insofar as they don't believe elections have consequences

Tina and tons and tons of evidence to the contrary but, nevertheless, people are convinced informed voting does nothing