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RedLeafRoy t1_j31ry3w wrote

Reply to comment by 11_Wolfie_11 in Police shot Gilford teen allegedly armed with a knife within two minutes of arriving, call logs show by SweetFeetLivingston

  1. You make it sound like the easiest job in the world. They're always hiring (can't find anyone to do the job). Sign up today. Show us all how it's done.
  2. I don't know the specifics here. The 17 year old could have been a 6 foot, 200 lb + male. The police officer could have been 5 foot, 100 lb female. Identity politics hires gives everyone the good feelz, but then there are real life issues. It's one thing with a desk job, and another for this kind of work.. You hire someone sans ability to do the job and then they can't do their job.
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11_Wolfie_11 t1_j32915w wrote

All good points.

I don’t think I said anything about the job being easy. Just that if you look at it from a distance, the majority of police work done in our society serves the purpose of creating criminals out of harmless people more so than it does to deal with situations like this one. And when these things happen, there’s training issues.

I’m also not saying it’s the fault of the actual officers, themselves. More so that the justice system and the laws it enforces exists primarily to fill the State’s coffers, rather than represent the interests of the People it “serves.”

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