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...recruits are, apparently, taken off the street, turned around three times, given a gun, and sent out on patrol.
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Not just Norway, but the majority of European countries have similar standards for police training. There's a reason you don't constantly hear news about the police shooting unarmed people 20+ times outside the US.
In British Columbia, Canada you must have a minimum of 2 years education (law, sociology, stats, criminology, etc...) plus after you are hired you must have 9 months more of precise training.
Its similar in QC. You need a 3 years college diploma (police course) followed by 15 weeks at the QC police academy. Or university degree in law enforcement followed by the 15 weeks at the academy.
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Reminds me of when I was teaching a course a Police Training College in Scotland. I was teaching IT staff, rather than cadets, but I had the misfortune to decide to go to the loo just as a group came out of one of their lectures. It was a requirement that they address anybody in a suit as "sir" and they weren't allowed to not acknowledge you either, even if you were only in your 20's. Most embarassing as I was desperate for a pee. I also learnt that the plural of "sir" is "sirs". So when two of us were walking down the corridor, we'd be addressed as "sirs". LOL
The De-Fund the police movement calls for better police training. The de-fund part is about stopping cities from buying surplus military equipment.
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A high percentage of US cops were on their high school football team. That somehow counts.
I'm pretty sure "dumber" cops are preferred in the US, like IQ 90~. That group is usually better at following orders
Some years ago four Swedish police officers on vacation in New York shocked the American police by de-escalating a fight on a subway train UNARMED and without harming anyone. https://www.ctvnews.ca/mobile/world/4-swedish-cops-on-vacation-break-up-nyc-subway-fight-1.2343606
Same here in Finland. It's not an easy school to get in to. And it's a higher education like in Norway.
Why can't we do that here? My brother was in the Army for 13 years but wanted to do something else, so he used his GI Bill to go to college and got his degree in criminal justice and became a police officer (well, he applied, then went through academy training). He's going for his masters now.
I think most countries do police training. University doesn't automatically make a course more rigorous than a police academy or any other place of higher education.
But certain courses of study can greatly enhance your people skills which cops in the US definitely lack. Shooting mentally ill people for example happens quite regularly. Learning sociology and psychology would help. It would also help with dealing with minorities. A ten week police academy course should not be considered sufficient training for dealing with the public when you are armed with a gun.
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While in the USA, our cops... well, I'll let Sarah Silverman explain: https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/2e342o/sarah_silverman_knows_how_to_manage_a_traffic_stop/
Four year studies in Finland and also hard tests if you even get to study.
Please note the complete lack of target practice. I'm not keen on people who like shooting guns a bit too much.
I doubt if Norwegians are as drug dependent and violent as good ol USA citizens.
Training and education is stringent and difficult in the US, I know.
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In Taiwan, to join the police force, after high school you have to go through two years at the police academy. To be an officer, you have to graduate from the four year police university. Also, they are attracting women to join, to help defuse tense situations.
To be fair, officers in the US never stop taking classes...there's always a new course of training assigned. They aren't always logical...but they must take the course, nonetheless less. For instance, I live in a the Blue Ridge Mountains, and when my dad was an active duty officer, it was required they drive 4 hours away to the state capital, to take a course on proper driving technique in conditions requiring four wheel drive. The instructor learned a few new things during that course...
That sounds like a good idea. I’ve always felt that cops need more training and the bar raised. Like a four yr degree. It might weed out more of the incompetent morons I see with guns and badges every day.
Growing up in Montana, I read adds for police recruits that read "must have college degree or be over 6 ft tall"
I wanted to look up the requirements for police in Germany, but I am sick and it was too much for me.
Depending in the path you want to go it's beginning with two or tree years of study (paid) at a Police Academy.
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Do they do it on a park bench wearing dark glasses and trenchcoats? Please tell me they do it on a park bench wearing dark glasses and trenchcoats!
Man. Joe has dysentery real bad, someone should take care of him. Wtf wants to nurse a guy through dysentery? No one that’s the problem! Wait, don’t we have a baboon around here?
I want it, how much is it, I’ll report back with my findings
That's actually not surprising to me. The main way radiation kills living organisms is via DNA Damage. The most susceptible is DNA being decoded, as unused DNA is curled up and will less likely be damaged by radiation. The faster stuff grows the more susceptible to radiation damage (that's why radiating tumors works). As a bonsai is by design being kept withing very strict growing boundaries it has a much higher chance of surviving radiation than a normal growing counterpart. Plus fact: there is a bacterial species called Deinococcus radiodurans which as you may have guessed ist extremely durable towards radiation, they do this via very good DNA repair mechanism but also low metabolism and division rates.
Y’all this is really random but it’s 11:11 and it’s also almost Christmas. So I guess make a wish
Guilty as charged. But there has been so many deaths in my life this year.
I remember this exact moment!! I thought it was so awesome, like literally awe-some lol
A $50 bet, per Snopes. For the curious, here is a list of the 50 words that appear in Green Eggs and Ham: a, am, and, anywhere, are, be, boat, box, car, could, dark, do, eat, eggs, fox, goat, good, green, ham, here, house, I, if, in, let, like, may, me, mouse, not, on, or, rain, Sam, say, see, so, thank, that, the, them, there, they, train, tree, try, will, with, would, you.
Aside from the hypothesis being 80 years old, little dogs living half this, and chickens also being an outlier - us having longer lifespans than 35 years is nothing to do with modern stuff. People historically lived to 60/80/90, General Cao Cao was 65 when he died in the 3rd century of a brain tumour. Lif expectancy was lower in the past but that was because of the high infant mortality rate bringing the number down, not people dropping dead in their 30s.
But, we all knew it was the genie. He's even obviously voiced by Robin Williams, the voice of the genie.
I've spent my kid's entire childhood telling other parents this, they all just think I'm an idiot. Oh well.
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Thank you everyone for being so considerate and kind. It truly means the world.
This has to have been just about the worst collection of rubbish ever posted by BoredPanda.
Thank you everyone for being so considerate and kind. It truly means the world.
This has to have been just about the worst collection of rubbish ever posted by BoredPanda.
