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I recently had a conversation with a 20-year veteran of a large metropolitan police department in Texas. He expressed his concerns that the department had deliberately weakened its hiring standards in order to recruit police officers that had minimal critical thinking skills and that would be respond to orders without question. I suspect that this occurs elsewhere and leads to many of the incidents where the police have used excessive force and/or not exercised good judgment.
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Ubi libertas habitat ibi nostra patria est
I hold it as a principle that the duration of peace is in direct proportion to the slaughter you inflict on the enemy. –Gen. Mikhail Skobelev
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