And that's why you give them more than 19 bloody weeks of training, perhaps 3 years, like in the rest of the civilized world.

I really don't see reasons to make any general complaints about cops in most western european nations, (my experience - germany/france) though. They barely ever kill (in proportion to population, 30 times less than in the US), generally treat you with respect. They also know the laws. You have to make the distinction. 

You're probably right.

I worked at a factory before becoming a cop and when I graduated, I just felt like a factory worker that suddenly had access to a gun and a car. It took a long time before I had and skills I think made me proficient as an officer--and much of that was because I took initiative to learn them on my own.

Ah Race, i knew there was something missing.

So, in other words any mook can be a cop in america, provided they take a six month course. It's about time officers are forced to get a degree like everybody else.

I'm just waiting for the day when cops being fired for not knowing the law, trying to make up laws and shit like that is completely normal. If part of your job is enforcing the law and you're unable to do that, you have no reason to have that job any longer.

That isn't happening until we fight the police unions. They do everything they can to protect their officers from accountability. They'll pay legal fees, threaten to strike if an officer is fired, and lobby against higher education standards for police. 

I feel kind of bad for giving the police some defense or benefit of the doubt on earlier topics. I try to be balanced and neutral, but there's just too many controversies, and it's not like they need defense. I mean, they're already in power as it is. 

They got a bribe from Bell? What was the bribe for? 

I read up on that and that infuriated me. The officer wanted to extract a comatose patient's blood when that is against the hospital's policy and his reasoning for wanting to collect the patient's blood was extremely shoddy. Cops need to go through more training so that these kinds of incidents can be minimized.