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ProfessorGAC

(64,413 posts)
28. Yeah, I Know
Thu Jan 14, 2021, 03:21 PM
Jan 2021

Our friend (older brother of wife's college roommate) was an MP in the latest days of Vietnam.
He rose to captain of a PD in a town of 180,000 where we all grew up. He died a couple years ago.
I was on the board of a $250 million dollar credit union with him for around 10 years.
I don't object to ex-military being hired. But, today it's a preferential factor.
I don't think that's a good idea.
If someone was an MP, that police experience is already preferred. Extra preferences can lead to bad judgment in hiring. Too easy to rubber stamp.

They & 99% of the mob thought white privilege would protect them. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Jan 2021 #1
Unconsciously apnu Jan 2021 #7
That's how white privilege operates, just assumed and all-pervasive. But not assumed by all whites Bernardo de La Paz Jan 2021 #13
That's a true statement. apnu Jan 2021 #16
Yep, because it usually has. marmar Jan 2021 #17
Good, and regardless of the outcome of any possible indictment or trial, they should also be still_one Jan 2021 #2
Officers on administrative leave struggle4progress Jan 2021 #3
Officers ordered to stay away from DC, protests struggle4progress Jan 2021 #4
"...and their records of military service." ProfessorGAC Jan 2021 #6
Yes, it makes them more dangerous Tom Rinaldo Jan 2021 #10
A great reason why LE should stop recruiting ex-military DeminPennswoods Jan 2021 #14
Only the authoritarian ones want to join the police JonLP24 Jan 2021 #15
I'm In! ProfessorGAC Jan 2021 #25
MPs have police experience JonLP24 Jan 2021 #26
Yeah, I Know ProfessorGAC Jan 2021 #28
Hiring MPs would be fine with me DeminPennswoods Jan 2021 #29
One has to wonder DFW Jan 2021 #5
+1, they all looked like they were on tour uponit7771 Jan 2021 #8
You'd think these two would know the consequences to breaking and entering... EarthFirst Jan 2021 #9
Woman shot was Breaking & Entering secured area. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Jan 2021 #18
Something I posted on FB pfitz59 Jan 2021 #11
Thugs, white supremacists. triron Jan 2021 #12
knr triron Jan 2021 #19
They look the part Dem2 Jan 2021 #20
knr 1000 times triron Jan 2021 #21
I hope they both get lengthy sentences dustyscamp Jan 2021 #22
Well, well - two dumbass redneck small town cops from western Virginia thought they had a permit hatrack Jan 2021 #23
And people wonder why we need police reform... Wounded Bear Jan 2021 #24
Defund the police is a solution to problems JonLP24 Jan 2021 #27
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