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Unsurprising. Who in their right mind would want to be MPD, even before this?
no shit. that cop couldn't run a quarter block, yet somehow got on a special crime unit. >

It should be made clear that the officers who killed Tyre Nichols were hired before Memphis began lowering their requirements, and were not a product of that new hiring initiative. >


It should be made clear that the officers who killed Tyre Nichols were hired before Memphis began lowering their requirements, and were not a product of that new hiring initiative.

Most important facts of the story right here. Sounds like someone is trying to obfuscate the facts >

Comes off to me like they had to set an already low bar even lower. >

Like it's become a limbo contest. >

Oh, good. We need more badly behaved people with power and guns on the street >

We don't exactly have a line of studs waiting kn the wings >

Yup. The answer is probably to increase taxes and pay cops a lot better, while also increasing the education requirements to become a cop. Make it a destination job.
The issue is that raising taxes doesn't lead to reelection and raising the minimum requirements to become a cop may well lead to the same race discrepancies that you see in other professional fields like attorneys and doctors. >

Maybe they could try to address some of the issues that lead to crimes before they become issues that require so many police. >

Certainly. I imagine there are a LOT of things that can be done to help the problem. >

This isn't a problem caused by a "low bar" because this isn't a problem of individuals. This is a problem with the culture of the department (and many departments throughout the country). There's no way the SCORPION unit was all peaches and cream up until that one night, and there's no way it got to that point in secret or isolation from the rest of the department. The fact that individuals who weren't part of SCORPION, like the EMTs, contributed as they did demonstrates that. >

Bingo. That kind of behaviour doesn’t just exist in a vacuum. How many incidents do we not know about? >

Exactly. In addition to that, how many more possible police recruits today know about the pervasive culture in most police departments of brutality and lawlessness that are endorsed and covered up by those departments, and feel like that's not the kind of career they want to have? You want to talk about what is contributing to lowered rates of hiring among police agencies, that's a big part of it right there. >

Marty McFly: "Hey, I've Seen This One!" >

ah yes, this will definitely turn out well >

Great, Chicago wants to do the same fucking thing! We’re governed by a bunch of fucking idiots! >

Because police departments are notorious for ridiculously high hiring standards, like not scoring too high on the iq test >

Cops don't stop crime. Everyone in the city could be a cop and you would still have rising crime. Until you deal with systemic issues such as poverty, dwindling community centers, decrepit school systems, and an over-militarized and hostile police force; nothing will change. 

The department also sought state waivers to hire applicants with criminal records. And the police academy even dropped timing requirements on physical fitness drills and removed running entirely because too many people were failing.

These are the major issues. You get people who can't chase down a suspect, you're gonna get more cops just shooting people because they can't run 100 feet. >

How do we get the crooks off the street?
Give them badges. >

Some people will assume you’re exaggerating, but that’s exactly what they did. From the article 

The department also sought state waivers to hire applicants with criminal records >

Is hedley lamarr doing the hiring >

It's a literal bar. If you can limbo under it, you're in! >

It's so low now you just need to trip over it. >

The police: A welfare program for sociopathic and/or authoritarian dirtbags. >

I thought that was TSA >

We’re both right! 😊 >

Cheap, fast or high quality. Pick one, maybe two if you're lucky, almost never three. >

I can't get mad about it. 
I can't imagine someone with good job prospects seeking out that job unless they had ties to it through family or military background. You'd have to pay me 150k a year for me to consider it. >

I think this is the issue that a lot of people on here don’t want to acknowledge. The majority of people would never even consider applying to be a cop, even if the pay was $150K. I’m guessing there are a lot of people on here who were raised and live in middle class areas and actively avoid spending time in the bad parts of town. Sure they might drive through those parts but they aren’t visiting parks, getting gas, buying food, or hanging out there. Then they wonder why there aren’t more people that share their world views and experiences applying to be police and have to not only patrol those bad parts but also respond to possibly dangerous situations there. >

Fox News was running around and saying the lower standards were due to "defund the police"

the scorpion unit existed because of additional funding
No one "defunded" their police deoartment

conservatives are just insane >

I see this shit on NextDoor all the time regarding my local police as well. People report minor crimes or mentally ill homeless people disturbing the peace and how the cops show up hours later or not at all. Someone always decides to post that’s because the police were de-funded which is so easily disproved. In fact the department has only gotten budget increaess but you can’t change an opinion with logic if logic wasn’t used to form the opinion in the first place. >

and of course
housing the unhoused is also off the table for these people
because that would be "bad" for some reason
even though ti would objectively make their lives better as well as the unhoused persons
it's truly brainwashing >

That they're causing and committing the crimes only made their recruitment easier. >

Isn't the bar dragging on the ground by now? >

Wouldn't it be easier if they just committed to helping people and solving crimes with the resources they have? >

Can't hire good people to be cops if you have a bunch of bad cops on the force. Like wants to be with like, so bad cops on the force only attracts bad people to be cops.