I’m much more concerned by “(excluding domestic violence)”
Domestic violence is ok, but have you smoked weed the last year?
That’s encouraged. It’s considered honing your skills while off the clock.
Must be applying to be a cop
OP explain yourself
I can’t really screenshot my query into indeed (as it very easily identifies a 5 mile radius of my house)
But apparently there is a police station within 5 miles of my apartment? Who the fuck let that happen?
If that were an issue they’d need to fire a staggering number of cops
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Either domestic violence is “okay,” or even they know that the whole “someone has to get arrested” thing is bullshit.
They know who they’re hiring. I’m just surprised they said the quiet part out loud: "It’s okay if you’re dangerously violent, everyone here is, so long as you only do it in private. "
Probably need to be 21 to start, and the onboarding process is at least 6 months.
Which makes sense because many states require you to be 21 to carry a handgun.
Fake. No maximum education requirements, no maximum test score limits.
Those exist, for sure. They just don’t say it.
Are there genuine education maximums? I could see test scores barring you for being too much of a free thinker, but why not let the rich kids play w/ the boom-boom-sticks after their PHD?
Nah, they aren’t set in stone requirements, just an excuse they are allowed to use to reject a candidate. That means they get to selectively enforce it.
Because they want you to follow orders.
Young people follow orders better than old people. I don’t get it
But education teaches you to try to understand why things are so, instead of just accepting that they are so, and the longer you spend there, the more you internalize it. There was a guy in Connecticut who was rejected because his IQ was too high because they thought that would make him less likely to want to do the same thing every day (which seems like or speak for the same, to me).
I think the rest of the comment section has the right idea that after six months of training, the potential police officer needs to be 21, either due to local laws or actuarial calculations from the department’s insurer (which they’d probably describe as internal policy).
If I were to guess… the onboarding/training takes 6 months, so they want applicants to be at least 21 by the time they are fully certified.
Imagine having a police officer who couldn’t go into a bar.
Idk what it’s like in the US, but in the UK age discrimination is illegal as a protected characteristic.
In the US, at least federally, you are protected against age discrimination only if you are over 40. You can discriminate against younger people on the grounds of their age all you want.
Which, incidentally, governments on all levels (federal, state, local) happily do all the time with inconsistent ages of majority depending on the topic at hand:
- 16: Age to get a driver’s license.
- 18: Age to vote, enter into contracts, buy a rifle or shotgun, legally considered “adulthood,” except…
- 21: Age to drink, smoke, or buy a handgun, and…
- 25: Age before which no rental car agency will rent a car to you. (Go figure.)
Don’t forget hotel rooms!
