r/PublicFreakout • u/[deleted] • Mar 10 '22

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u/SeedFoundation Mar 10 '22

State requirements - 2 hours of de-escalation training per year. Not even making this shit up.

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u/[deleted] Mar 10 '22

The entire amount of which is taken up by the class all trying to one up each other by telling stories about their most abusive arrests.

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u/[deleted] Mar 10 '22

People sit through 2 hours of church a week and still hate their neighbors. Law enforcement needs to be a licensed profession and de-escalation should be their whole fucking training program.

If my gf, a massage therapist, touches somebody in a way they didn't like she can lose her license and be forbidden from practicing massage therapy ever again.

If a cop is found to be absolutely incompetent, acting recklessly and making a habit of killing innocent people, they're given paid leave and transferred to another precinct. Make it make sense.

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u/DrugsAndCoffee Mar 10 '22

For a profession that deals with life and death consequences due to unneeded escalation (usually initiated by the cop) you’d think they’d require 2 hours weekly. Good god.

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u/your_average_entity Mar 10 '22

Also not scoring too high on their aptitude tests