The competition to enter a big city police academy is pretty tough. Lots of applicants for not that many spots. Everyone in my academy squad was a college graduate. Most were ex-military. Depending on the department, most big city police departments recruit training is anywhere between six months and a year. Academy conditions are much harder physically and mentally than any high school in the country. The drop out rate is nearly 20%.
You are tested mentally, emotionally, ethically, and physically on a daily basis and you're being watched all the time.
After that, you have a year (at least) as a probationary officer where the pressure doesn't let up.
I'd have to question the idea that any high school dropout gang-banger would drop his social affiliations for two to three years just to get into an entry level position in a metropolitan police force. What would be the pay off?
Weapons training.
In the US, white supremacists have infiltrated police and military to get weapons training
That doesn't surprise me. I was in the military and the Police, the police recruit training was much more demanding. . The standard for entry level military is much lower than the police, GED is acceptable. Recruit basic training in the Army is only 10 weeks, including OSUT.
The competition to enter a big city police academy is pretty tough. Lots of applicants for not that many spots. Everyone in my academy squad was a college graduate. Most were ex-military. Depending on the department, most big city police departments recruit training is anywhere between six months and a year. Academy conditions are much harder physically and mentally than any high school in the country. The drop out rate is nearly 20%.
You are tested mentally, emotionally, ethically, and physically on a daily basis and you're being watched all the time.
After that, you have a year (at least) as a probationary officer where the pressure doesn't let up.
I'd have to question the idea that any high school dropout gang-banger would drop his social affiliations for two to three years just to get into an entry level position in a metropolitan police force. What would be the pay off?
Weapons training.
In the US, white supremacists have infiltrated police and military to get weapons training
That doesn't surprise me. I was in the military and the Police, the police recruit training was much more demanding. . The standard for entry level military is much lower than the police, GED is acceptable. Recruit basic training in the Army is only 10 weeks, including OSUT.
But, just like infiltrating the cops, you have to question the reasoning behind joining the army for weapons training. In that 10 weeks, only a small portion is dedicated to any actual weapons training. You'd get more intensive training going off to the Appalachians with a bunch of junk bond traders from Manhattan for a survivalist weekend.
Depending on your MOS you get more training think MP or Armorer. Also if you stay in for 4 years or so you get even more training if you go to PLDC. The ones that can make it in the military can make it as a cop. Pretty much all the people I know personally that are cops were also in the military. They tell me there is a shitload of racist cops that are probably part of the KKK or Nazis.
A person that goes through four years of training competitive military training and gains a specialty MOS isn't an infiltrator. He's a dedicated soldier who is also smart. He didn't join just so he could live on some white power compound in Montana after his enlistment is up. There are a lot easier ways to get weapons training. The kind of training the Army provides wouldn't even be useful to someone planning on being an insurgent. Insurgencies don't have access to Pentagon-grade logistic chains, air support, armored divisions, or ELINT platforms. The US Army fights a completely different kind of war from wanna be white militants.
Are there racist cops? There sure are. There are racist bus drivers, racist librarians, racist stock brokers, and racist interior decorators too.
There are close to 5,000 different police departments in the US, some are huge metropolitan departments and some are small local ones. At my station, there are close to 500 cops of every race, creed and religion you can name. He have roughly 30% women, some of whom wear a hajib in uniform.
You can be a closeted racist and last for a while, but you're going to get found out and the punishment is the door. All your hard work and training down the toilet. Departments are hyper-sensitive to charges of racism not because they're enlightened in their thinking but because, frankly, they can't afford the law suit. A racial-motivated lawsuit could cost a city millions and kicking a racist cop out the door costs them nothing ... it's simple math.
Some say that being a cop makes you a racist, but I claim the opposite is true. I worked in the business world for decades and what I knew about crime came from the evening news, which plays up minority crime as epidemic. The biggest surprise and the most fundamental truth I learned very quickly in this job is that arseholes don't have a race. Criminals are literally a rainbow coalition of races, genders, sexual orientation, and politics. The only thing they have in common is a shockingly low order of intelligence. Before taking this job, I didn't realize people at that level of stupid even existed outside of the 'Jerry Springer Show'.
