General Discussion

States require more training time to become a barber than a police officer

We wanted to see if that was true. Because every time there’s a controversial police shooting, the question comes up: How much training do officers get?

Turns out, Jacobs’ claim is right. And it’s not just in North Carolina. In California, New Mexico and New York, you can get a badge hundreds of hours sooner than you can use a pair of barber shears.

And it’s not just barbering, either. Many trade jobs require more hours of training time to get a license than it takes to get a police badge. (Important caveat, though: Police departments can choose to go beyond their state’s minimum training requirements – and many do.)

https://www.cnn.com/2016/09/28/us/jobs-training-police-trnd/index.html

Two studies have found that at least 40% of police officer families experience domestic violence, (1, 2) in
contrast to 10% of families in the general population.(3) A third study of older and more experienced officers
found a rate of 24% (4), indicating that domestic violence is 2 4 times more common among police families than
American families in general. A police department that has domestic violence offenders among its ranks will not
effectively serve and protect victims in the community.5, 6, 7, 8 Moreover, when officers know of domestic
violence committed by their colleagues and seek to protect them by covering it up, they expose the department
to civil liability

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