Juice's Lecture Notes wrote:
Antarctica wrote:
good dolphin wrote:
This is what I am talking about in response to Antarctica saying the police know what gets them in trouble.
They have to be trained to be impervious to verbal insults. That's just part of the job, like a weatherman or tax collector.
You cant expect human beings to weather this for almost a week. Its beyond the capacity to endure. If you really want cops who can handle this start being more demanding in terms of qualifications, but if you want university grads and qualified people to pick local policing over the FBI you're going to need to pay a ton. And even then, the stigma enforced by this movement makes it so money would have to reach stratospheric levels for MANY to even consider it.
Fact is, the only people looking to be police officers now are people who want to be societal outcasts. Very few people who want to do something positive are going to want a job as thankless as police officer where they endure seeing people at their worst day in, day out while the whole world hates them for it.
I've said for awhile: A world without qualified immunity for police and laws criminalizing police misconduct is one where a beat cop makes as much as a cardiologist.
Ive always thought about this scene from Mulholland Falls , Malkovich and Nolte about this discussion.
Nolte: General, I really don't think much about those things.I'd probably see too much.
Malkovich : What do you see?
Nolte
eople dead before their time.
Malkovich: That's the history of the world, Lieutenant.
Some people die before their
time so that others can live.
It's the cornerstone of civilization.
War, religion, democracy.
A hundred die so that
a thousand may live.
Nolte : Well, General, I take 'em one at a time.
Right now I got Allison Pond.
Malkovich : We're not so different, you and I, Lieutenant.
You see, certain men...
A doctor, a national leader,
an officer of the law,
give to society in ways
that most people do not.
In turn, society gives them
certain considerations.
Now, we don't teach this in school.
We don't acknowledge it.
But those who accept the burden of leadership understand they have
these considerations.
You've accepted the burden of
leadership, haven't you, Lieutenant?
Nolte : In what sense, General?
Malkovich : You protect society, the ordinary citizen.
Now, in doing so,
sometimes you may break the law.
You may violate the Constitution,
the Bill of Rights, Search and Seizure.
In fact, it may even be
known that you do so.
And yet, nothing happens,
because it is understood that that
is part of the burden of leadership.
And you accept it.
You accept your sins.