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I'll agree with the part about officers getting more extensive background checks. Just from experience (one of my exes became a cop), it seems like they put people with degrees through the ringer to become cops, yet people without them they bring them right in as if it was a Craigslist ad (yes, I know having a degree doesn't automatically mean you have sense, nor does not having one mean you don't). But just from dating her throughout that time, certain things she was telling me about her going into the academy was very off-putting, most notably, officers seem to be legit taught to discriminate no matter what. How are you supposed to be able to uphold the law when they try to embed in you to basically be bigots from day one? That's a damn travesty. It also doesn't help that a good amount of officers become officers because they were bullied growing up, and wearing that shield gives them a reason to have a chip on their shoulder the entire time. That's why you see them acting a *** all the time, cause they're having flashbacks from their youth of getting picked on. Add in some other factors, and you have basically a bunch of unlit fireworks with badges and guns on their hips, ready for you to give them any reason to go off.