(July 2, 2013 at 9:52 am)Faith No More Wrote: I think what would go a long way is better psychological screening for people applying to become cops. We need better tools to weed out the sadists and those that wish to become cops for the position of authority as opposed to those that truly want to protect the community.
Absolutely, also if we made it a more desirable job we'd get better candidates. I and many educated people don't want to be cops because it's not a very good job. It's only a good job to people who either have a strong desire to help people or much more commonly have a strong desire to bully people. There is little appeal to regular people. If we cut the police force (we really don't need as many cops as we have) and paid more to the remaining good police we'd be a far better position. For some reason though the idiot public can't understand anything other than "we need more cops"