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Originally Posted by Hambone933
Unfortunately the law enforcement ranks are being replaced with increasingly younger and inexpierenced officers. This new generation are the same teenagers that sat around, in many cases still do, and played video games all day. The older generation is retiring and leaving the ranks. I think the same thing is happening in the Miltary. The younger generation of supervisors are more concerend with getting promoted and moving to the next level then ensuring there subordinates are doing their job and completing it competenly. The training giving to most law enforcement officers is woefully behind the times. Believe it or not there are agencies still training as they did 20-30 years ago. Officers are not being taught that they are to maintain the peace. LEOS are not the military. Look at the example of the officer in FL, who, shot and killed the 93 year old. He'd already shot and killed another shooter. Unless there are some serious changes in the thinking and training in LEO agencies this will only get worse. My 2 cents from the inside looking out.
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The last time I got pulled up in America I was traveling at just under Mach 1 from Vegas to LA.
I got pulled up fair and square by a cop who looked to be no more than 20 years old(but certainly no older than mid 20's).
We were in the middle of nowhere and there was no following or opposing traffic.
The kid was very polite and very professional and went thru his drills like a boss. He handled himself like a fella with another 10-15 years on him. I was impressed.
I'm a bit less worried about "kids today" in LE than I am about how a very challenging fiscal/monetary/economic environment may impact on LE in the future.
Financial stress on LE.
Things like inflationary pressure on family budgets, LE wages falling behind real inflation leading to drop in purchasing power MAY leads to that awkward fart in the room called corruption.
Those 2nd/3rd order effects from poor monetary/fiscal/economic policy that could potentially lead to an increase in the kinds of things found in that old book/movie Serpico.
I recall a 60 Minutes episode about 20 years ago on the New Orleans cop shop referenced in this article:
http://www.crimelibrary.com/gangster...n_davis/4.html
If you pay sh!t, you generally get sh!t.
How much responsibility/culpability did the New Orleans PD have in the poor handling of Katrina due to their long history of poor pay and corruption?
increasing big picture financial stress on LE staff(as well as military/government staff with access to Int valuable to foreign intelligence) is a very serious strategic threat/vulnerability in my opinion.