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Changing the police narrative to one of serving, regardless of adversity (see doctors and USPS) from one of "getting to play with violent toys"...

>>Ranger+(OP)
There was a big push for more community policing and less "tacticool" policing the last time these protests happened. That seemed to have petered out after a few years.

>>Ranger+(OP)
It's interesting trolling that side of the youtube algorithm. It's abundantly clear that we've shifted from cops just being a mix of individuals who want to help and a substantial number of not-so-ex-high-school-bullies to full on military LARPers.

The DHS funding being pumped into the forces have resulted in police being better battle-equipped than the average country's military and this has become a recruiting tool. Don't want to sign many years of your life away and probably get shipped out to a -stan where you have to deal with constant misery just to live out a military fantasy? Just go to a police academy for a couple months and you can cosplay all you want while with all the same toys in a "target rich environment".

The end result is we've created a recruiting pull that only finds the worst possible people for the job. It would be like HR only hiring people for a software company who picked computer science entirely because they heard it was high paying but somehow far far deadlier.

>>AWildC+z4
Is there any evidence this is true? The vast majority of cops will never aim their weapons at another person or use military gear beyond training. Is the slim chance of getting to use a humvee once in your career really compelling?

>>in_cah+m6
A lot of people end up in law school because of courtroom dramas, even though the vast majority of attorneys don't spend much time at all in a courtroom...

>>Ranger+(OP)
Perhaps with some sort of hippocratic oath?

>>in_cah+m6
right now, in the present moment, on might argue that a majority of police in america are presently participating in this cosplay.

>>elliek+xc
I don't think that's what causes doctors to be ethical (most of the time). Pros of being a doctor: high pay, you get to help people. People who don't want to help other people will not become doctors.

On the other hand, people who want to harm others, have a higher chance of joining the police force. (Not all police officers, but some.)

>>ksdale+a7
You're backing a claim made without any evidence by using another claim without evidence

>>in_cah+m6
Traditionally that was the case, however there's been an increase in incidents where they have been responding with far more gear and weapons than could possibly be reasonable. In short, they're actively looking for excuses to play dress-up and it's getting worse.

>>vulcan+vX
And, arguably, the Hippocratic oath is backed up by malpractice suits.

>>chippe+v51
I went to a well-regarded law school and happen to have witnessed first hand both how many students were surprised that they wouldn't end up seeing the inside of a courtroom in their careers, and how many students shifted their goals from wanting to be a prosecutor or a civil litigator to wanting to do one of the hundreds of other things attorneys do on a daily basis.