Study: Over 26% of U.S. Police are Diagnosed as Mentally Ill

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Dangerous for the other 74% going around undiagnosed...

gustofwind@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 260d (2 replies)

Departments also prefer to limit their IQ to ~104 because if you’re too smart you won’t make a good cop

shalafi@lemmy.world · -11 pts · 260d (1 reply)

Look, I hate pigs with all of my soul. I have suffered at their hands, many, MANY times. But that was a one-off case. A case 25 years ago.

Yes, I know, you're so smart for digging that up. I got cookies? Want a cookie?

EDIT: No one got a rebuttal? No one can say I'm wrong here? Isn't that something. Going on your gut instinct? Like anti-vaxxers?

No, just that doing it once was doing it too many times, and if you can't grasp that concept, you are part of the problem.

ininewcrow@lemmy.ca · 17 pts · 260d (3 replies)

Mental instability sounds more like a requirement than a detriment

Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone · 8 pts · 260d (2 replies)

If you didn’t have it before joining, you’ll have it after all the ‘training’ that consists of showing a million videos of cops getting shot!

ininewcrow@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 260d (1 reply)

Hours and hours of daily training being taught how to solve any and all problems by using your gun and only your gun.

Mirshe@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 260d

Don't forget the seminars telling you that literally every person you ever meet, on or off duty, is planning and actively wanting to kill you.

rainbowbunny@slrpnk.net · 8 pts · 260d (1 reply)

To be fair, "An estimated 26% of Americans ages 18 and older -- about 1 in 4 adults -- suffers from a diagnosable mental disorder in a given year."

Sure, but we can screen our police better to make sure they won't harm our communities.

rook@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 256d

Hmm