1. shytty people are being hired as cops. Those shytty people then go on to make bad decisions.
2. The problem isn't the talent pool. That's a myth. Plenty of good individuals who would go on to make good cops are not being considered for the role.
Not being considered why? Are they even applying? Because I have yet to know anyone without a record who ever wanted to be a cop and couldn't find a place that would hire them. Like I said earlier, a lot of departments have MAD vacancies and are reduced to hiring re-treds and failures.
Why would a department hire someone that they found likely to cost them significant dough in an excessive force or civil rights lawsuit and settlement? If Bernie's points for accountability are made into law, that will become too great a risk....if they have another option. But they have to have other options.
What qualifications are you looking for that you believe will make a better law enforcement officer?
Which of those qualifications do you believe better pay will address?
Mostly generalized skills that apply to other intense environments - demonstrated maturity, competence, conscientiousness, compassion and empathy, elite decision-making/problem-solving skills in stressful situations, and a high degree of effective communication/interpersonal skill. You can grow some of those things through extensive training (not the shytty short-term training they typically do now but a much longer pre-field process), but for the most part you're only going to be able to identify those traits if the candidate has a successful life/work history before even entering the force.
The problem is that people with those networks of competencies usually aim much higher, they're going into the business world or law, or if their empathy level is especially high they enter social work or activism. Policing is considered a blue-collar job for people who couldn't cut it in other shyt, rarely a desirable job for a highly competent or justice-minded person. (Even when it is a desirable job, young folk practically always say they wanna be a "detective" rather than "police officer", because being an officer alone carries that stain of lower respectability.)
Higher pay alone won't shift the candidates - similar to the teaching field, it needs to be higher pay and a shifting of responsibilities simultaneously. So long as police departments are militarized operations and police officers are allowed to act like thugs, they are going to attract the sort of people drawn to that and repulse others. As Bernie said in the first half of point 5, the entire culture of policing has to change, not just the pay and the accountability.
Again, black people are not being targeted by law enforcement because they are underpaid.
If you believe the only thing wrong with police is the intentional targeting of Black people then you're naive as fukk. We already addressed this so I suspect you're just being disingenuous again rather than being naive. Other aspects of Sanders's 8-point plan addressed that issue, but you have completely ignored 7.5 of the 8 points.
I've offered plenty of criticism regarding Biden. he wasn't my preferred candidate and I was happy with him losing the primaries. You're creating fantasy. I wasn't on this board when Clinton ran so I doubt we'd have had that discussion.
Who was your preferred candidate and what was their policing plan, and where did you criticize it?
I guess I had a hard time pinning you down to an actual candidate most of the time because most of your work I'm familiar with has just been criticizing leftists or trying to deflect leftist criticism of centrists and right-wingers without ever bothering to play your own hand.
