It's a bit disingenuous. Police and army and the like need people who follow orders before or without thinking, other people's lives depend on that. But if you are smart you can still get hired as the guy giving the orders. It's not all that different from something like an entry level tech job, where a good hiring manager knows not to hire the overachiever because he'll be unhappy and leave within a few months.
Police and army and the like need people who follow orders before or without thinking, other people's lives depend on that.
No, they objectively don't. Like, this is the opposite of true.
Intelligent teams with broad backgrounds and good communication skills are vastly more capable of reactive problem solving in actual critical situations.
Thugs who follow orders are completely useless the moment communication breaks down or the speed of action outpaces the command response.
The only thing they can be relied on to do consistently is to violently lash out at anyone around them. Which in the case of policing, is usually the citizenry they are supposedly intended to protect.
Which tells you a lot about what modern police forces are actually designed for. Suppression, not community protection.
As far as I understand from people who've been rejected and from a friend who works as a hiring manager for a local police force, that only goes for teams that actually make their own decisions. Which is not true for the vast majority of regular police. For grunts they look for average intelligence. Also you sound very ameribrained, police in other countries are trained to deescalate, they're not "thugs" or whatever, that is a uniquely American problem. Or maybe not unique, but it's not univeral by any stretch.
Its where the majority of the sites traffic comes from and its what the OP is specifically referencing. Oh no, a bunch of Americans are talking about American policing.
Being like "this totally isn't a problem at all if you just ignore the problem actually being discussed and pretend that we're just talking about hiring average people to hand out traffic tickets" and then getting offended is absurd.
We're talking about the guys carrying guns who get to make decisions about who to shoot. Those people should not be highschool dropouts.
This isn't a "uniquely American problem". Its a problem literally anywhere that doesn't have extremely robust democratic and social foundations. Which is basically a small handful of European nations.
There is no need for this my dude, I didn't say you are disingenuous and I'm not defending anything. I was just explaining that the whole "they only hire stupid" is a disingenuous framing of the reasons, as it implies they literally don't hire smarter people, which they do. It also implies this is a police/army unique thing, which it's not. That is all. I have no qualm with you or anything you said. Calm down.
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u/CelebrationProof6082 8h ago
Yes