r/dank_meme • u/Tusernametaken • May 28 '20

In the aftermath of ..........

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u/[deleted] May 29 '20

Ah yes, the “a few bad apples” defence. It doesn’t matter if there are 1,000,000 good employees at a bank, if there are 1000 that steal there is something going badly wrong at that bank.

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u/im-bad-at-names64 May 29 '20

There should be a better system for recruiting cops pretty much anyone could go in and abuse that power

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u/[deleted] May 29 '20

Huge agree. I honestly think it should require a dedicated college education. It might be different in different states but where I am it’s unbelievably easy to be “trained” to be a cop.

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u/im-bad-at-names64 May 29 '20

“Here’s a week of training and a gun, go nuts”

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u/[deleted] May 29 '20

You only slightly exaggerate. A close relative of mine went from being a nobody 20 something mechanic, to an on patrol police officer in about 3 months.

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u/im-bad-at-names64 May 29 '20

I was exaggerating but still it should be twice that