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Not many cops could deal well with early morning caffeine fanatics in a slow drive-through lane.
Cops don't and never have prevented crime. >

Yeah, addressing poverty and inequality would do more good than just hiring more police to beat up poor people. >

Yep. A disproportionate amount of crime where I live comes from places that are neglected.
Why don't we lift those place up? >

Politicians don't live in those places and neither do their donors, so why would they pay any attention to them? It's easier to just send in the police to bust heads and keep the prisons full. >

Yep. And neither do the well-off live there, or most of the middle class, etc.
So we just get these poverty zones, mired in social problems. Somehow people are ok with that. >

I'm old enough now to know that people are awful, and that there's no hope for humanity. 
I do my best to help everyone around me, but i live in a red state hellbent on making everyone's life worse. >

It's a sad state of affairs, really. >

This is lowering the bar? Because these guys were employed in law enforcement their whole lives. They're not exceptions to the standard, they're just standard. >


Another former patrol officer-turned-recruiter who recently left the department told the AP that in addition to drawing from other law enforcement agencies and college campuses, recruits were increasingly coming from jobs at the McDonald’s and Dunkin’ drive-thrus.

McDonald's workers are better at deescalating conflicts than cops are in my experience