Quote:It's the administration that has the money to settle the claims, and that's a great incentive for them to hire a better quality officer that wouldn't brutalize the people they serve in the first place.
In Phoenix - this was just on the news the other day - they lowered the standards and still washed out 2/3 of the class. Somewhere in the original thread was a discussion of police qualifications. In Los Angeles the requirement is a high school diploma OR a GED. Even I was shocked.