<div dir="ltr"> a police state where merely leaving the house with the wrong expression on your face could send you to prison or killed by militarized police.<br><br><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline">
Around here (Mississippi) you can get shot just by being unarmed and unthreatening but mentally ill. Whatever they are using to screen potential police men and women are not doing the job. We do not need warriors and with a shoot 'em up mentality. We need people who are friendly, do not reflexively get angry when dissed or threatened. Black culture demands that black people not be nice to police. They are going to back talk and the police need to know that and that they should not respond in kind.<br>
<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline">I have read studies where police are extremely likely to use very excessive force if there is a chase, particularly a long one where the police get angrier and angrier.<br>
<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline">So what we need are emotionally stable people who can keep their heads under stress. Wee need police that are not into being a controller of others.<br>
<br>But it seems that they will take anyone who can pass their military type training. <br><br>Interesting to note: the group mostly likely to enter a mental institution (as a percentage of their group) are psychiatric attendants and psychiatrists. Again, poor selection of people for the job.<br>
<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline">What is the likelihood of police becoming criminals? Higher than you would expect. Again - wrong types are being hired.</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline"> In cases way too much similarity between the mentally ill, criminals or people thought to be so</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline">, and the police.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline">
Now you are going to expect me to say that we need to raise salaries so as to attract a better class of person to the job - and I will not disappoint you.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline">
You pay for what you get, as in everything else.<br><br>bill w</div><br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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