Quote Originally Posted by VDW View Post
You can get everything you want in the above posts, and quite possibly will. The result will be you get a college educated 35+ year old who didn?t stick with their first career choice to politely take your statement and photograph your injuries. The only arrests that will be made are going to be the suspects who for one reason or another were incapacitated before the officer arrived, or voluntarily submitted to arrest. I guess you could just stop arresting people and switch to a ticket based justice system. Thing is, I?ve heard stories about people who won?t sign tickets or even identify themselves. I?m sure someone will figure out how to deal with those cases.

A few side effects I can see arising pretty quickly: You?re going to have to double the size of most departments to deal with the level of training you want and still be able to staff the streets. You will also have to significantly increase the training budget as you will be continually replacing officers who quickly either decide they can?t stand rotating shifts every few months in addition to continually interrupting their sleep schedule for training, court, and other administrative procedures/hearings or just decide they?re ready for something else (as they couldn?t start out at 21). With this much physical hands on training, you will continually have a large number of officers out on workman?s comp claims, as practicing fighting and defensive tactics in a realistic manner for the demanded competency will invariably cause injuries. You?re also going to repeat all of the above for every officer that forgets they?re not supposed to defend themselves or has to deal with one of the aforementioned incapacitated suspects who suddenly wakes up from their alcohol and or drug induced stupor and wants to fight.

Man, I can?t even imagine how a bunch of 35+ year olds with college degrees and managerial experience would do taking orders as rookies on shift work....
Yep...that's a great post. Quite honestly, the public has been getting the police departments they've been asking for, over the last 20 or 30 years. And it's not working out too well.