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It seems like an inefficient setup (lemmy.world)
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[–] [email protected] 70 points 7 months ago (1 children)

A friend of mine is a prison guard, in Norway, and from what I recall him telling me, a solid 6 months (out of 2 years) of the education he took to become a guard was spent studying law. It's probably more comprehensive if you want to become a police officer.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Yeah, it's always weird looking at all the ACAB messages when you live somewhere where cops actually have to have some form of education... It takes 3.5 years in school to become a cop around here and sure we still have issues with bad employees, but at the same level you would expect in any job...

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

If your police system prioritizes protecting its own over serving the public, and you choose to join it anyway, then you are a bastard, so in that sense ACAB is true. The problem is that a lot of people have started using it to claim that all police, everywhere, in every system are bastards, and that just undermines the whole movement and ensures that we'll never have progress.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

Maybe the slogan shouldn't have been so idiotic and unnuanced. Americans seem particularly skilled at coming up with slogans that rile people up while being fundamentally shitty slogans.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Man it makes me sad to be here. I only see other, actually developed countries tackling shit at its root rather than nonstop bandaid fixes for everything.

Always gonna be ask for forgiveness not permission in the US.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

But is it "any" job?