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Originally Posted by Astrocloud
...My personal feelings are that people should be drafted to become cops. Anybody who wants to be a cop shouldn't be allowed to be in law enforcement -ever. (Excluding the draft rule). The fact is that too many bullies (for lack of a better description) become cops ...
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I never thought of that before. While I agree with your basic premise (Most people who are 'cop wannabes' are just power hungry asshole idiots) it does not stand the light of inspection.
I agreed with you, as I have an extreme dislike for Wooden Bullets (security guards who pretend they are cops) but then I thought about expanding that same logic to other professions. The thought of making politicians drafted worked, but doctors, teachers, soldiers didn't.
Logic: The people who are actively persuing that career must have alterior motives, and are therefore excluded from the process. Hmmm.
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Originally Posted by Ganggreen
here's a real easy solution to all this that i think would help alot. if a cop is convicted with a crime, their penalty should be double that of a normal citizen. since they are entrusted with enforcing the law, they should be held to a higher standard. no cop should have an argument with this unless he/she is a criminal. this is my REALISTIC solution...
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I agree with Ganggreen 110%. There is a trust that society places in our protectors. Like the thread that compared people to sheep, cops to sheepdogs, and criminals to wolves, we need these sheepdogs to keep us safe. When a cop breaks that trust, it is easily twice as bad as a regular citizen! I say 10 times as bad. Give them 10 times the sentence. I want that asshole cop to think 10 times before he does something illegal.