In america at least cops can’t have an IQ that’s too high of they won’t get the job. They want people smart enough to do the capitalist class’s bidding but dumb enough not to question anything.
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Escew@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
They don’t pay cops to think. In fact, I don’t think they even pay cops to reboot stolen bikes.
inv3r510n@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
The official reason is that if you’re too smart, the menial repetitive nature of most police work will get boring and you’ll quit. The rationale being they didn’t want to invest in training if you aren’t going to stick around.
vala@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
This is a fun fact considering you need to be a cop before you can be a detective.
AnyOldName3@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
If this is Cambridge in the UK, both times I reported a bike theft, they confidently told me that they recover and return most stolen bikes. They absolutely do not recover or return most stolen bikes. Bike theft is so rarely sorted out by the police in Cambridge that nearly no one bothers reporting it as everyone knows their bike is gone forever, even if they parked it in good view of a CCTV camera and the frame was engraved with contact details all over.
Anticorp@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
They actually screen for people who do think, and disqualify them from being police officers.
makyo@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
No they don’t care. It’s why bike thieves are such assholes, there’s barely any money to be made off it at massive inconvenience for the bike owner but they do it because they know 99% no one comes after them.
stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
i bet a bike thief could steal a bile in front of a cop and the cop would simply look the other way