Woman stops mistaken eviction attempt through her Ring camera

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8. It's really a perfect storm. You recruit people of low normal intelligence,

train them from day one that it’s “us versus them,” and drill into them that absolutely nothing is more important than officer safety. When they get out of the academy, they have qualified immunity. In most cases, there will be no civil consequences for their actions, and if there are, the taxpayers bear the burden, even those most of these guys are making 6 figures with, at best, a high school education.

In my state the training is only 16 weeks. Most of that involves physical training of various types, and weapons training. There is very little on the actual laws or Constitutional rights. Most of the class work is on investigative techniques, report writing and the like. There is one hour of ethics training. Not one credit hour; one hour period.

They are taught to lie and trick people into giving information — which the Supreme Court has held is legal. In every state you do not have to ID (traffic stops excepted) unless the have reasonable articulable suspicion you are, or about to be, involved in a crime. Many cops actually believe they can demand ID from anyone, at any time, for any reason. They think policy, or local ordinances trump the Constitution — a Constitution they swore to “protect and defend from all enemies, foreign and domestic, and to bear true faith and allegiance to the same.” A Constitution most have never even read.

Policing in this country is bad, and it’s getting worse.