I have no problem with this.. We have expectations in physical abilities for a lot of careers. Fucking Even private security & bouncers for certain locations have strict requirements of being in shape & ability to subdue people, if those rentacops have that requirement why don’t our police?

I'm sure at the academy they tell recruits "We need to learn to try to subdue the subjects. If that fails go ahead and let them walk to their car then you can deem it suicide by cop.

Obviously all cops should be minorities. Then at least its black on black which no one cares about.

This post was edited by Horadric_Pube on Aug 26 2020 03:36pm

This whole situation is out of hand, and its been coming for a while with everyone being so sensitive about every little thing. Now everything is racist, even if it isn't. I'm boycotting the NBA I think. Fuck them and the bubble they rode in on.

We had more police shootings during Obama’s presidency than in Trumps but we haven’t had these massive riots & response. We had some but not to this scale.

Trumps divisive nature, inability to show compassion or want to even lead in the race issue, & also inability to maintain order due to being too scared shitless to enforce more order (wants to be popular) is also a huge issue. He only tweets & antagonizes the same rioters (who are also Americans he are suppose to represent) & adds fuel to the fire. He is a problem.


That combined to COVID aka people are unemployed & everything is closed have led to a perfect storm.

So still no answer and straight back to virtue signaling. If that's all you have, I guess I don't blame you for it.

You expect an answer from me but you can't come up with a solution yourself? Ah ok. If I can't think of an answer to the Police brutality thats going on then maybe the current solution is the only one. Nice argument.

officers should probably have to regularly pass a standard (not scaled for size/weight/gender) physical fitness and combat test* in order to keep their badges, this would probably drastically reduce the frequency they would need to escalate to lethal force

if someone is unable to pass the test then they should be disqualified from field police work until they are able to pass it.

yes, this probably would prevent many women/smaller men from qualifying, but given the fact that it is directly related to the effectiveness of their performance it isn't based on bias or inequality, so there should be no problem with it.


*in addition to frequent psychological evaluation and anti-racism training

This post was edited by WrathOfGod1337 on Aug 26 2020 03:45pm

It’s a very hard job to be a police officer. &’people thinking “there’s 2 of them it should be easy,” have either never been in a fight or tried to subdue someone who is actively using their entire body to resist being restrained in their life.. it’s not that easy to stop someone kicking, scratching, punching, pulling, biting. So most cops have a very hard job. Over & over again. Cops rarely get called to fucking save a cat up a tree, it’s usually to stop a huge dude from beating his wife, or a crackhead to stop doing some crackhead shit..

That being said, we need better training, VASTLY. It should take years & a bachelor equivalent to become someone who can legally kill someone & legally suspend your constitutional rights.