(July 2, 2013 at 9:37 am)CapnAwesome Wrote: The US is over policed. Canada has a much lower police presence, but they have much better police on average and their society is substantially more ordered and has lower crime. Obviously there are other factors, but giving a blank check to cops does not lower crime.
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.
