Comment by mikrotikker
6 months ago
Surely you want to select for warrior cops especially in a place like the USA to be able to handle things like school shooters and violent meth heads?
Is it better to hire a diplomat and make them a warrior or hire a warrior and make them a diplomat? When lives are on the line id choose the later tbh.
As Uvalde showed us, in extreme situations we need professional, competent cops, not (wannabe) "warriors."
The warrior cop mentality is the worst combination: it teaches police to be simultaneously afraid of their own shadows and belligerent and trigger-happy. The all-too-predictable result is that they escalate and shoot innocent people in nonthreatening situations, and then fail to lay down fire when it actually is life-or-death.
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/the-warrior-cop-ethos-and-the-s...