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> Cops are not paid enough for the task at hand and it's unattractive for quality people unless they are willing to be underpaid. I have not checked police pay scales, but at least in California, police departments and schools are the only parts of local government that have budget increases every year. I don't think it is the pay scales that cause police to attract violent sc…
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Think about this: in most of the country, cops are the only people who get to walk around town wearing weaponry, so power-trippers are naturally going to want to be police. If the departments' don't screen those people out, then you've got someone that just can't wait to use their new billy club, stun gun, or pistol on someone. Police training emphasizes officers that were kil…