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Originally Posted by Itse
From the pictures you get the idea that pretty much the only basic requirement for a US police officer is that they know how to shoot.
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Btw, notice how everyone is white. I guess you could argue that since Finland is 95% white this is not a big deal. But I'm pretty sure the Finnish police force isn't 50% female either. Still, not a huge complaint in my books.
However, in Missouri it kind of stands out that with 11% black population there's not a single black person in those pictures.
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Unfortunately most officers in the US are poorly trained and aren't normally from the well-educated/highly intelligent parts of the community. At least in the experiences that I've had with police, they're generally kind of power hungry guys looking for reasons to waive their weapons around.
And while I understand the idea that Missouri's population leads to a police force that is primarily white--the community where Ferguson is located is predominantly black--but there are no black officers, and none of the officers that "serve" that community live anywhere near it.
Also as of this evening, two members of the press were arrested while sitting in a McDonalds. Detained, no questions answered, never told why they were being arrested, and then released without any charges. If you're arresting media members, you're first of all infringing on their 1st amendment rights, and secondly--you look really, really bad. If you've got nothing to hide, why would you need the media to be gone?
Here are the two guys who were arrested:
https://twitter.com/WesleyLowery
https://twitter.com/ryanjreilly
If the police in Ferguson are innocent and doing things by protocol--they have a really, really interesting way of showing it.