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theHRguy@lemmy.world to Late Stage Capitalism@lemmy.world · 4 months ago

Study: Over 26% of U.S. Police are Diagnosed as Mentally Ill

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Study: Over 26% of U.S. Police are Diagnosed as Mentally Ill

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theHRguy@lemmy.world to Late Stage Capitalism@lemmy.world · 4 months ago
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Mental Health Crisis Among Police Officers is Bad and Getting Worse
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    Dangerous for the other 74% going around undiagnosed…

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    Departments also prefer to limit their IQ to ~104 because if you’re too smart you won’t make a good cop

    https://abcnews.go.com/amp/US/court-oks-barring-high-iqs-cops/story?id=95836

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      Look, I hate pigs with all of my soul. I have suffered at their hands, many, MANY times. But that was a one-off case. A case 25 years ago.

      Yes, I know, you’re so smart for digging that up. I got cookies? Want a cookie?

      EDIT: No one got a rebuttal? No one can say I’m wrong here? Isn’t that something. Going on your gut instinct? Like anti-vaxxers?

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        No, just that doing it once was doing it too many times, and if you can’t grasp that concept, you are part of the problem.

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    Mental instability sounds more like a requirement than a detriment

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      If you didn’t have it before joining, you’ll have it after all the ‘training’ that consists of showing a million videos of cops getting shot!

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        Hours and hours of daily training being taught how to solve any and all problems by using your gun and only your gun.

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          Don’t forget the seminars telling you that literally every person you ever meet, on or off duty, is planning and actively wanting to kill you.

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    To be fair, “An estimated 26% of Americans ages 18 and older – about 1 in 4 adults – suffers from a diagnosable mental disorder in a given year.”

    Hopkins Source

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      Sure, but we can screen our police better to make sure they won’t harm our communities.

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    Hmm

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