(December 4, 2022 at 6:29 am)GUBU Wrote:(December 3, 2022 at 8:20 am)Jehanne Wrote: You get what you pay for. To be a cop, one only needs a high school diploma. In Iowa, you could get hired immediately without even having to go to the Iowa police academy right away. One reform that could take place is to do what sheriff departments do and that is to make all police officers deputies; if a sheriff wants to get rid of an officer, all he/she has to do is to not redeputize that person. Make police chiefs elected officials as local city sheriffs and see what that does.
Your plan would make the whole situation even more of a fuck up than it already is. Rural police in the US are generally worse than urban police, largely because they have absolutely no training.
What the US needs to do is to stop seeing their police as an army of occupation and their criminal code as a means to keep minorities down. Once the police are recivilianised, properly trained and deployed correctly, oversight is made independent and effective and the laws applied equally to all and written for the common good, you'll see a massive improvement in standards.
It would be an interesting study, the abuse of state cops versus city cops versus sheriff deputies versus the federal police (most of whom have advanced degrees).
