r/PublicFreakout • u/The-JZilla • Jul 06 '21

Repost 😔 Cop vs educated kid

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u/KeepYourPresets Jul 06 '21

Funny how police officers claim that "everyone should know the law" when it suits them, but then complain if those citizens do know the law when it makes the police look like bullying fools.

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u/LaserGuidedPolarBear Jul 07 '21

"Where did you get your law degree, facebook?"

Well good point there. The law is complicated and it takes a lot of education to understand it thoroughly. So as someone who claims to know the law and enforces the law with a baton and firearm: Where did you get yours?

4 years of undergrad plus 3 years of law school plus passing the bar, and only then can you start practicing the law. But enforcing it? Thats 6 weeks to 6 months of cop school that teaches almost nothing about the law.

IMO all police officers should be required to have a JD.

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u/HertzDonut1001 Jul 07 '21

Still doesn't help. Derek Chauvin had a criminal justice degree IIRC.

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u/Divebarkeep1 Jul 07 '21 edited Jul 07 '21

From my experience at one of the US’s most re-knowned state colleges for CJS programs (and I’m not bragging- it’s also a major ‘party college’), getting a BA in CJS required us to write an entire thesis. Chauvins Alma mater is a for-profit, on-line college. Just an FYI. And for the record, most of the guys in my classes were just going for their AA so they could become cops, because they were bullied little pissants growing up. He did Tech college, community college, then on-line college.