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In reply to the discussion: I don't think this is the way to go. [View all]DFW
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An overweight, steroid-addled skinhead who gets his jollies breaking people's arms with his nightstick should NOT be a model for someone hired to serve and protect. The likelihood is that he will do neither. A recent vet of Iraq or Afghanistan who has PTSD needs to find another line of work. There will never be 100% elimination of mistakes, but four cops squeezing the life out of some unarmed guy who may or may not have inadvertently had a fake $20 bill is not a mistake. It's murder. Knocking an unarmed 75 year old guy to the concrete pavement and leaving him there to bleed is not a mistake. Thinking you can do that and keep your job as a cop is what should be the mistake.
We need reworked, stricter and diligently enforced guidelines on what it means to be a cop, and pay that gives decent people an incentive to become one.