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In reply to the discussion: 600 NYPD Police Officers Consider Leaving the Force [View all]Jarqui
(10,877 posts)20. What is being asked of them that is so difficult?
For starters:
Don't be a racist - treat everyone fairly and the same while upholding the law
Don't use excessive force:
ie Stop shooting unarmed black kids in the back?
Stop choking black people to death?
etc
Cell phone and security along with body cam videos will be used to hold an officer to account that he/she does those things.
If those are the things making officers wanting to quit, good riddance. They shouldn't be o police officer in the first place.
I say that with police officers in my family going back generations - who managed to uphold the law with fairness for all and not killing or hurting anyone badly.
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Maybe because they know their days of being bad cops with no accountability are over?
sunonmars
Jun 2020
#2
They won't. How else will they be able to make that kind of money with only a high school
Dream Girl
Jun 2020
#7
You need an associate's degree (60 credits) or military service to be a cop in the NYPD.
lapucelle
Jun 2020
#9
My guess? All bad ones. They know that their days of harming citizens are over. nt
Blue_true
Jun 2020
#36
The problem with your analysis is that as a body, police officers have not fought
Blue_true
Jun 2020
#60
Subject line is misleading: this is merely one right wing nutjob's opinion.
lagomorph777
Jun 2020
#35
Kerik is pulling numbers out of his ass, like any criminal Republican. He doesn't know dick.
Midnight Writer
Jun 2020
#42
Good! Saves the state from having to pay their unemployment and having to fire them
onetexan
Jun 2020
#44
There are 3 core problems with police, that all need to be addressed by local leaders.
hughee99
Jun 2020
#70