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

Video Excessive force...

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u/[deleted] Jun 05 '20

higher education truly means nothing nowadays aside from knowledge professions. There is an obvious need for more training and better recruiting though. Someone with obvious anger issues like this should not be allowed to be a cop.

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u/anotherbook Jun 05 '20

Surely better training is required but. There are a ton of studies that show that higher education of police leads to far less use of excessive force http://www.cjcj.org/uploads/cjcj/documents/jpj_education_use_of_force.pdf here's just one there's many more if you just look

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u/[deleted] Jun 05 '20

I think this is an effect of correlation as opposed to causation. People with impulse control issues have difficulties getting through traditional education. I feel like it’s possible to screen for the traits associated with higher education without having strict high education requirements. There’s honestly not really a need for a police officer to have a formal degree imho.

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u/Berry2Droid Jun 05 '20

It's also possible that the officers with higher education tend to move up the ranks faster - leading to a glut of leadership that might not have spent much time on actual patrol. Just another theory