It seems like an inefficient setup

Law Enforcement should be a profession, just like doctors and nurses.

Formal education. Licensing with a college whose role is to protect the public. Malpractice insurance. Requirements to remain current, and eligible to practice.

A friend of mine is a prison guard, in Norway, and from what I recall him telling me, a solid 6 months (out of 2 years) of the education he took to become a guard was spent studying law. It's probably more comprehensive if you want to become a police officer.

The setup is rigged so that you have to pay a lawyer to fix any issues.

I mean they're not wrong - I wouldn't expect every policeman out there to be Phoenix Wright, but at the very least they should actually have to learn the laws that they're supposed to be enforcing

Police generally dont think the law should apply equally to themselves and civilians. That's most cops; a group within that thinks they should be able to create the law on-the-fly.

Should they go to school to be better at this? Irrelevant. They have a gun and the idealogical highground.

Fucking baffling to me how the most armed country in the world doesnt train their officers. German police tends to suck ass, but to become a policeman you have to study for 3 years. And you have to pass a lot of law exams.

I wonder what it would be like if passing the Bar was required to be a police officer. There would be way less police officers, that's for sure.

I once asked an elementary teacher what was to stop cops from breaking the law whenever they wanted and she told me that any cop breaking the law would receive double the normal punishment. I nodded my head as that made complete, reasonable sense to me. Then, as an adult, I learned THAT ISNT TRUE AT ALL! Not only do cops NOT automatically receive double the punishment, but 99% of the time the entire system will rally around to protect them if they commit a crime.

Police is the executive, not the legislative power of the power devision.

But yes they need proper training. (Dangerouse half knowledge ahead) not the few weeks/days training they get in the USA and then they are done

Give power of life and death over others in an environment were they de facto are judged less strictly and punished less strongly than other people, to people with 3 weeks training.

What could possibly go wrong???

If any one would hear that in my country it would be the fiasco of the century. (we have had one) You aren't even allowed to go near the studying line if you have any criminal record. When the police make an mistake in my country, there will be an investigation. And the investigation is done by a party not in the normie police force, which can and does lead to convictions of the members police force.

Instead, Americans: here is your gun, go shoot and kill anything that moves, you are unimpeachable.

The kid knows what's up. Still, to better explain to them, a good analogy IMO would be that cashiers don't necessarily study finance.

That's because cops aren't here to protect you, sweetie. They're here to protect property, now go to bed.

Teach them that law school is about finding loopholes, studying court precedent, and writing legal correspondence

They only learn the laws that have fines/generate revenue for the county/state, or that give them the ability to physically harm someone. The amount of times I have seen a cop run a stop, turn/merge without signaling, or speed without the lights or siren on has taught me that.

Just because it's always been that way doesn't mean it's not incredibly dumb.

Platon designed a system. We never listened him.

that happened

Tell me you didn't go to law school with one meme.

Law school is not the place for police.

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