"Most of the inherent problems within this department, and most others, are a lack of application and employment standards and arrest quotas. Every department denies having these issues, but they are there. Arrest quotas, ticket quotas, mandatory drug arrests, etc etc. It needn’t matter what the offense was; merely that you come in at the end of shift with enough arrests, whether that be taking someone to jail for an unpaid seatbelt ticket that is 7 years old or the 65 year old cancer patient in possession of a marijuana joint, on his way home from work. The police officers that are being churned out at an alarming rate are being brainwashed into thinking they are different from the rest of the citizens. They are being ingrained with the “Us vs. Them” mentality to such an extent that they lose their own identity. These new Officers are commonly prior military or it is their first ‘real job’. They refuse to question orders to such an extent that they become robots for someone else’s agenda."
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