Agree 100%. They dont know how to handle the very situations they are expected to be trained to encounter. My son and I road tractors in tandem from field to field. Cops could care less around here. Maybe our cops arent ex semi-pro ice hockey brawlers like those Alberta cops?
Funny how all the Hollywood types around here want to move to Canada to escape police brutality.
Grass aint always greener on the other side, huh?
I think the root cause of the problem is that once you stick a group of people together you develop a cronyism culture. The only way to break up the brotherhood culture is to fire everyone every 5 years and put all new people in. 1st year is the honeymoon, year 2-4 your get performance, year 5 the abuses start. Fire them all and start again. The problem is that isn't a cost effective way to run a policing organization.
Cops tend to have to deal,with dirt bags and wack jobs all the time. After a while they expect EVERYONE they deal with is a wacko nut job and the cops are always ready and looking for a fight. It's survival instinct. The big BUT is the police force tends to attract people who get off on being in power and controlling other people like puppets. Sorry but you need to call a spade a spade.
I think this is the same reason why the whole democracy and political system is broken. The people attracted to the political profession are the crooks, narcissists and sleazy used car salespersons who are good at lying, being smarmy and self serving.
I think elections should be replaced with a lottery system similar to jury duty. When your name is drawn from the hat then you HAVE to do the job, 5 year term, and you get paid $300K a year tax free. The only stipulations should be
1. You are a citizen over the age of majority
2. You must NOT have a criminal record
3. You must NEVER have been personally bankrupt or responsible for a business that has gone bankrupt
4. You have a minimum IQ - you gotta be semi competent
5. Once in office you can never do it again
I think these first 4 rules would probably eliminate half of the current "politicians". Think of all the money being wasted on advertising and running stupid popularity contest elections...put that money towards infrastructure/education/healthcare. Eliminates cronyism. The average Joe couldn't do any worse than the current elected officials...probably better because they have to be there, not because they desperately want to. No need to worry about political affiliations, parties, lobbyists etc. Stagger the elections that every year you replace 20% of the people put in power.
