Non-U.S. Citizens Can Become A Police Office In California

[BaggerofTea]

The problem is there is a severe shortage of police officers. Last year LAPD was down 176 police officers. According to the L.A. Times approximately 600 officers in LAPD are expected to retire or leave the department by the end of 2023. That department is so desperate they are trying to rehire retired officers. People complain about the increase in crime, but then complain about the increase in police.

This leads to another issue. It's true that police officers should be more intelligent and disciplined, but college educated people typically don't want the job. When I was in college, there were hardly any people, especially black people who wanted to become police officers. That begs the question. If we don't police our community, who will? Most police these days are former military.

The city in which I work is majority black, but the police department is majority white. The police Chief and 2nd in command are black, but all the new hires have been mostly white.

Sounds like we need civics 101 back in schools

 

[Nameischosen]

Sounds like we need civics 101 back in schools

why do you have a asian woman in your avi.
you should have an anime character because you love japanese woman

 

[Phitz]

You all are ignorant

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[acri1]

Am I supposed to be upset about this? I don't know of any inherent reason they shouldn't be able to be cops.

Yall TLRepublicans are lame. If you're trying to convince somebody to support Trump or whatever you're not doing a good job.

 

[Mike Nasty]

These jobs aren't going to go unfilled.

 

[Pure Water]

Lord, the hyperbole.

 

[MajesticLion]

its the military recruiting thing that makes me legit indifferent to it

citizenship for military service had this same rhetoric behind it at one point. fast forward a few decades, and its all boiled down to these guys taking jobs no one else either wants or qualified for.

i really thought i was missing something on this one.

If it were just staffing shortages to be concerned about, there would be no factual basis for the pretend panic by OP.

Still: there's a real problem here, with gang/cartel people basically being given free training. You're not about to sell them the American Dream when they're not accepted into wider society and are forever seen as outsiders.

And with that said, there's always the wider blind spot where all this is thrown on immigrants and yet Jan 6th militia zealots are given free passes.

 

[TaxCollector13459]

If this is true, you Cali folks gotta fight back.

How you going to let non-US citizens police you in your own country?

 

[goatmane]

so what are the black males in California going to do about this?

we still going to keep up the petty beefs and squabbles over another mans perceived success with women and outfit/sneakers?

at what point will we unite and legitimately fight back?

Come to the south

 

[goatmane]

If this is true, you Cali folks gotta fight back.

How you going to let non-US citizens police you in your own country?

I'm Latino, but I'm against this law.

You should not be able to become a police officer unless you're an American citizen. If anything it should be harder to become a police officer in this country so it can weed out the people who shouldn't be on the force.

2 years after George Floyd when we demanded better police hiring and training California votes to lower the requirements

 

[desjardins]

Need H1-B visas to staff your law enforcement brehs

A country that has a ton of un(der)employed ex military should never have a shortage of law enforcement or COs

 

[intra vires]

Do they mean permanent residents can or just someone here on a visa?

It's work authorized non-citizens, which in the California context largely means DACA recipients and green card holders. Of course it's not limited to them, it would also include some refugees, asylum seekers, and immigrants (on specific work visas).

Work visas aren't one thing, I doubt it'll be one of those easily acquired ones that agriculture and domestic workers use.

 

[SupremexKing]

Come to the south

im literally in the southernmost point of the country.

shyt is trash.

 

[Gloxina]

so what are the black males in California going to do about this?

we still going to keep up the petty beefs and squabbles over another mans perceived success with women and outfit/sneakers?

at what point will we unite and legitimately fight back?

MESSAGE

 

[MaxPain]

Im foreign born & I’m against this law

This is nuts

Wow

Good job Commiefornia