waffledave
waffledave, from hf
I’ve done my masters. Some students I met along the way are some of the most emotional people I’ve ever met. I don’t see how education weeds out emotional people.
Also, this is the US. Why would someone do a law degree then become a police offer after all that debt?
I get where you’re coming from but I don’t see it happening. In fact, “defund police” movement would take huge hit as you’d have to pay people more to become police.
The idea with defund police is to defund the militarization of police. Pretty sure they would be fine paying them more if it meant they were more stable and better equipped to handle the pressure.
I am aware there are still emotional people in academia but the bully who barely scraped by in high school who goes on to become a cop in small town USA won't be able to make it past mall security if he has to do 4 years of study first. That's the idea here.
I mean even in Quebec we require a 3 year technical degree before you can apply for police academy. Adding barriers to becoming a cop will weed out a lot of people who shouldn't be in this position to start with. Forcing them to be masters of the law on top of that plus needing a high level of intelligence and critical thinking skills is even better.