Re:U.S. Rep. Angie Craig drops college requirement for staffers
by woodruffw on Friday April 28, 2023 @03:03PM
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Americans are normally the ones to myopically reduce the world's issues to their own, but sometimes the British are not to be bested!
Re:U.S. Rep. Angie Craig drops college requirement for staffers
by catiopatio on Friday April 28, 2023 @03:49PM
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I’m an American aware of how this idea has played out elsewhere.
Re:U.S. Rep. Angie Craig drops college requirement for staffers
by jaywalk on Friday April 28, 2023 @02:55PM
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That sounds more like a problem with the law than with the police.
Re:U.S. Rep. Angie Craig drops college requirement for staffers
by catiopatio on Friday April 28, 2023 @03:25PM
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Policing isn’t independent of the law or legal culture.
There’s also the entire issue of “non-criminal bias incidents”:
https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/opinion/columnists/5238...
Policing has gone in this direction in the UK, and now you have mothers being arrested in front of their children after “misgendering” someone online: https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/i-stand-with-kate-scotto...
> St Albans Magistrates’ Court found her guilty, under the Communications Act (2003), of using a public communications network to “cause annoyance, inconvenience and anxiety”.
Fortunately, she eventually won on appeal and her conviction was overturned, but the process itself was the punishment.
Police need less power, not more sociology degrees.