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Originally Posted by sidewaysil80
i can tell you for a fact...EVERY police department does an EXTENSIVE background check and MULTIPLE psychological evals. cops are screened and it's actually very very difficult to become one fyi. the application/hiring process alone is usually up to year. and THEN you move on to academy, field training, ojt, proby period. so even as strict and incredibly hard as it is to become a cop...bad apples can and will slip through. psych evals dont always catch nut jobs....sometimes they slip through.
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I'm sure you're right and they do go through background checks, psych evals, but things like this happen waaaaay too often for the checks that currently exist to be adequate. A new story and video of this happens every couple weeks.
From my own experience the friends of mine that became cops/chp were coke heads and college drop outs.
And yes yes yes the 99% of cops aren't going to shoot some innocent guy, but the job itself lends itself to people that will abuse their power.