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Originally Posted by Jeff Higgins
We hold other license holding professionals (doctors, lawyers, engineers, etc.) personally liable, so why do police get to hide behind their departments? It's time for that to come to an end. I think if we can ever succeed at holding police to the same level of professional responsibility and liability as the rest of us, we might just see a drastic change in their behavior.
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No disagreement but one major difference is the other professions you identify require significant degreed education and licensing and are accompanied by 6 figure salaries. As long as we're recruiting high-school dropouts with a Rambo complex and pay them the princely some of $28k/year, we'll get exactly what we have today.