Issues Under Fire: Critical Shortage of Smart Cops
After examining the recent spate of police involved killings of unarmed citizens, we may have uncovered an angle missed by most. While the focus to date has been race related, we think a lack of intelligence plays a huge role in law enforcement today. Broadly speaking, many individuals charged with enforcing the law are simply intellectually ill equipped for the job. Race may be part of the problem, but stupidity is at the root.
If you think it through, law enforcement in the 21st century requires an exceptional mind with well developed critical thinking skills. Because the tasks police officers are asked to perform become more complicated and intellectually challenging by the day, nothing less than the best and brightest minds should be granted such wide ranging authorities. Training and programming will only go so far. You can't train someone to be smart.
Unfortunately, people with exceptional minds and well developed critical thinking skills don't become police officers. For lack of a better word, "Smart" people take safer and more profitable paths in life. More often than not, police officers are recruited from the lower middle class. The lower middle class produces average minds, not critical thinkers. Police officers may be the finest, but don't confuse that slogan with the best and the brightest.
An average American mind will complete high school, maybe two years of community college and perhaps a stint in the military. After those modest accomplishments, its off to a blue collar career. Should that blue collar career come with a badge, a gun and the authority to take a life, it should be no surprise when complications arise. When a lower middle class cop, possessing little more than an average mind encounters the poor and desperate, the outcome is often tragic.
Generally, the poor and desperate are of even lesser intellect. In many cases, thats why they are poor and desperate. Thinking it through, only a poor and desperate man would resort to selling loose cigarettes on a street corner. Surly, there are more profitable street crimes to lose one's life over. On the other hand, only a stupid police officer would take a poor and desperate man's life for committing such a trivial offense. Clearly, this is a case of dumb meets dumber.
Under current circumstanced, the smart citizen will do anything and everything to avoid contact of any kind with law enforcement in the United States. Even if one has to refrain from reporting certain crimes, one will be far better off resolving issues themselves than seeking help or assistance from the authorities. We wouldn't even recommend asking a police officer for travel directions or the time of day. Beware the police; they're heavily armed, extremely dangerous and not very smart.
Bottom line: As America's decline continues, its important not to overlook the devastating toll that decline has taken on the nation's ability to produce an intellectually sound population. If the general population has been dummied down, the police authorities have been dummied down as well. Sure, there are pockets of intellect, creativity and innovation still keeping the country afloat, but many of those minds have been imported. Podcast Below!
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