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