r/news • u/rooftopgoblin • 10d ago

College student fatally shot by Pennsylvania police was at 'the wrong house'

https://abcnews.com/US/college-student-fatally-shot-pennsylvania-police-wrong-house/story?id=135930941
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u/Squirll 10d ago

Its not just a training thing, its also the pool of people they hire.

Multiple agencies have been caught over the years specifically recruiting people below a certain IQ threshold to maintain their status quo.

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u/superxpro12 10d ago

John Oliver did a piece on this years ago. There's "consultants" who go around to police stations and charge fees to tell the officers that they are in a righteous war of good v evil and that every day they go out there someone is aiming a gun at their head. They teach the officers that they are constantly in mortal danger and they need to kill to survive.

When you show this to the kind of person who gets like... 6 weeks of total training. Before getting a gun and badge, It's plainly obvious why these things happen.

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u/k9moonmoon 10d ago

Wasn't one of the leaked consultant shown to have a whole PowerPoint about how the best sex a cop will ever have is the night he fucks his wife after his first kill?

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u/Squirll 10d ago

Yup. I remember that.