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#246 — Police Training & Police Misconduct

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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What It Takes to Be a Police Officer?

In california, it's six hundred sixty four hours to become a cop. Just for comparison, it's sixteen hundred hours to become a cosmotologist and fifteen hundred hours to be a barber. So both of those require more than double the training that it takes to become a police off or in the united states of america. On the makerol level, we're setting these cops up for disasters. Because you're taking a regular human who, in many cases, have never been in a fight in their life,. You're giving them six hundred n sixty four hours of training that include everything under the sun, but not nearly enough of everything, right?

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