(06-06-2020, 02:01 AM)JagNGeorgia Wrote:

(06-05-2020, 10:02 PM)mikesez Wrote: Cops are asked to do too many jobs.
There are not enough social workers in this country, and the government doesn't hire enough therapists for the people who really need one but can't afford one.  All that makes policing harder than it needs to be.

I'd be all for paying cops more, but it's not going to happen.  
Not that they don't deserve it.  Many do.  Not that the local governments couldn't find the money.  Most could.  The issue is deeper.

Every time there is ever any kind of negative story about the police, what do you hear? F.O.P. has his back.  Union has his back. He stays on the job.  The police won't police their own and they make life difficult for anyone who tries to do it for them.  Tear all that down, wait a few years, the public might be on board for a "pay cops more" type campaign.

An FOP doesn’t have a strong enough hand to stop the firing of a dirty cop. They don’t hold the same power as a union. 

The idea that police don’t police themselves is a myth. You can’t imagine how many cops I’ve seen fired for something as little as lying about signing out equipment. This idea comes from the public’s perception when they see a cop like Chauvin get 17 complaints over 19 years so he must’ve been dirty, and the department covered for him. People complain about everything. Often they do it just to ruin your career. 

Tear what down? What does that even mean? You can’t propose ideas without an idea of how to accomplish the goal. It’s easy to say rebuild the police department with less corruption while ignoring that there’s no foolproof method to weed that out. And when the next George Floyd happens, we’ll be back here saying the same thing. 

Your suggestion that paying for good cops will come after they’re fixed ignores that bad cops won’t fix it.