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Originally Posted by Shotsie
Why would you feign respect for someone who clearly has no respect for you or your rights? The fact is that there are a great number of police officers that are unfit to wear the badge, and this guy is one of them. He clearly has a problem controlling his aggression.
I'm pretty sure police officers aren't trained to subdue a suspect - a woman no less - by choking them and repeatedly punching them in the ribs. The police department should, at the least, make this guy go through some kind of training course on how to properly subdue a suspect, coupled with some anger management and an unpaid suspension.
You know why this guy acts like that? Because they're in North Dakota and there's absolutely nothing going on. This was probably the highlight of this cops year. From my experiences, cops in the city are much more level headed and well trained because they actually have to work for their paychecks fighting real crime. It's only in the suburbs where you see these power tripping assholes, for the most part.
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You would probably be shocked, stunned and disturbed to know exactly how little training most cops have.
They go through the academy, most of which is classroom stuff to teach them about laws and how to do things to make lawyers happy. During the time in the academy they get about 7-10 days of hand to hand training that they call defensive tactics. After they are out of the academy if they get a defensive tactics refresher or training course once every five years they are lucky. My town is does a thing they call con-sim training. This is where they have guns that look real, but have been modified to shook paint bullets and they do scenarios where deadly force likely will be needed. Not all of the scenarios are deadly force, the idea is that it helps teach you when to use it and how to do so if you need to. They get this training once per year. They are one of the few departments in the state that even does this training. This training used to be part of the academy and they just cut it from there. this means there are a lot of offices who are on the street where the only deadly force training they have had is target shooting to qualify with their gun and a little in class study.
It is frightening, but budgets are being cut and when they do the first thing to go is training.