The Picard ManeuverIt seems like an inefficient setup
MushuChupacabraLaw 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.
The PantserHow would you feel about police making $200,000 {or more since they will need hazard pay} a year to drive around and or sit in a car. There is no way a city could afford to hire enough cops to patrol a city. Yes they should have to learn the laws they enforce and carry liability insurance but there is no way we should force them into doctor/nurse level education without equal pay.
XtallllTeachers need a 4 year degree and a state license, and they don’t get $200,000 or hazard pay.
chickenYeah but for teachers it’s not a problem for the sort of people who want that particular job to actually get it. For cops I’d rather the people who inherently want to be cops to be outcompeted by a larger applicant pool of more educated people and have to get some other job.
funkless_eckeh, i dont think you know what youre talking about here - education recruitment is a nightmare.
I’m working with the premise of the above comment that it’s fine to disagree with another aspect of what it says. You’re right that I don’t know anything about the state of education recruitment.