Can’t attract enough good people to be cops, so you have to take what you can get.
> Can’t attract enough good people to be cops, so you have to take what you can get. <
True that. And there are such things as “gypsy cops”. They get fired by one department. But as you noted, most police departments are desperate for qualified candidates. So the fired cop gets hired by the next department down the road.
There’s at least one such cop in my neck of the woods. He shot an unarmed suspect in the back. The cop escaped a criminal conviction, but he was fired. And he cost his town a huge legal settlement.
That incompetent cop just moved down the road. He is now working at another local department.