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ConservagameR on 01 June 2022
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sundin13 said:
ConservagameR said:

There's a lot of jobs filled by, to some degree, unqualified people, due to the shortage of qualified people. The reasons for a lack of qualified people are many, but it doesn't change the fact that it's either have enough cops, or have a worrisome lack of them. If the camera causes what would then seem to be unqualified cops to do their job poorly, what do you suggest? Defund the police instead?

If every company just fired their unqualified people, the US would have very different business and work culture, not to mention an economic meltdown due to lack of employee's period.

Cops having camera's is almost certainly the answer to the camera problem, since it seems the camera's aren't going away. The next step is for the media and the people to wait for the full story before jumping to conclusions. Plenty of times now after the uproar, have the police finally released their footage, proving the officer was in the right. As for when the footage proves the officer wrong, then all the more evidence to discipline them.

There is a big difference between an unqualified Subway manager and an unqualified cop. We need to hold cops to a high standard or else you get...well, you get American cops. However, I agree that this high standard can create a shortage of applicants, so I support an increase in wages for many important public service jobs to compensate which includes the police. However, this needs to come with certain increased accountability and I have seen no sign that police as a whole are going to accept any increased accountability. 

Issues with food can be quite detrimental if not deadly.

Cops should be held to a high standard, but what goes along with that, is people being held to a high standard. Now that's not so much the case when it comes to the individual(s) committing the crime, even though it's supposed to be, but for everyone else, I'm sure the cops are expecting a certain standard, and are not receiving that. If the cops see a decline in how they are viewed and treated by the general public, it's not logical to assume the cops won't be effected as well and begin to operate at a lower standard.

If the people buying your product aren't living up to a companies expected standard, you tend to see the company change over time, like how they deal with consumers and customers. Sometimes if enough consumers and customers are enough of a pain, they'll take their business elsewhere or stop making that product. Other times they'll try to stay the course, but will have considerable troubles with employee retention since they won't put up with the customers and consumers they have to deal with and quit. Which very well could explain why there may be more unqualified cops today and why the cops aren't living up to a certain standard perhaps.