• MushuChupacabra@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    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.

  • Gigan@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    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.

  • espentan@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    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.

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      5 months ago

      Yeah, it’s always weird looking at all the ACAB messages when you live somewhere where cops actually have to have some form of education… It takes 3.5 years in school to become a cop around here and sure we still have issues with bad employees, but at the same level you would expect in any job…

  • JATth@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    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.