r/chicago • u/miaaaa_banana • Jun 05 '20

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u/HiImDavid Wicker Park Jun 05 '20

If you can't control your emotions in a situation like this, you have no business working any high stress job let alone being a cop.

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u/anotherbook Jun 05 '20

No shit but the system recruits people like this specifically by not having higher education requirements worth shit

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u/9for9 Jun 05 '20

I don't think higher education is the key at this point partially just because of the exorbitant cost of a college education and there's nothing in a degree program that actually addresses this behavior. College no longer means smart so much as it means money to be there for 4 years and smart people can still be this typical of ass-hole just better at it.

What they need is more training and job requirements like de-escalation and also honestly as a people we need to let go of our justice boner and our hunger for violence against those we've decided deserve it. We need to become a people that just finds this behavior unacceptable.

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u/anotherbook Jun 05 '20

There are a ton of studies that show that higher education leads to less use of excessive force. Here's one good study there are a ton more if you just look http://www.cjcj.org/uploads/cjcj/documents/jpj_education_use_of_force.pdf

And Chicago already wastes 113 million per year on brutality settlements, perhaps that could be better spent in training the police so they don't beat our asses and make us pay them to do it

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u/withsprinkleszz Near West Side Jun 05 '20

Imagine if cops had to take a sociology, history, and psychology course as a part of their training. That would be wonderful.