PrussianTrollFarm

PrussianTrollFarm t1_iwupkmm wrote

People care A LOT more about sports when they’ve got money on games and sports coverage is a major traffic driver for local news/news in general (Murdoch for example built his empire on soccer coverage).

They want more eyes and people having increased interest in sports will give it to them.

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PrussianTrollFarm t1_iuacsbv wrote

I could be wrong here (not a cop), but I’ve always heard that the BPD academy is basically the only one in the state that issues credentials graduates really can’t take anywhere else.

Police academies are generally feeders into their sponsoring agencies, but cadets who choose to pay their own tuition can apply to other departments once they graduate. You go to the MSP academy, BCPD academy, etc you can get hired by any department in the state. BPD academy graduates though are effectively considered non-credentialed by other agencies in the state. Maybe after a few years on the force they can go elsewhere; I dunno, not a cop. From what I’ve heard though their freshly graduated cadets are locked into the BPD because nobody else will touch them.

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