What happens when you do minimal screening before hiring agents, arming them, and sending them into the streets? We're all finding out.

I skipped the steps of the application process that would have clued the agency in on my lack of fitness for the position. I made no effort to hide my public loathing of the agency, what it stands for, and the administration that runs it. And they offered me the job anyway.

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  • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
    6·
    7 hours ago

    Not really, it implies they have plausible deniability because they can just pretend a “mistake” like that is a one off, if discovered. “Oh whoopsy, one slipped through!”

    • 7101334@lemmy.world
      3·
      7 hours ago

      The LA Sherriff’s Department was revealed to have gangs in their ranks which would go out and party and get commemorative gang tattoos after they killed their first person.

      Basically nothing happened as a result.

      You drastically overestimate the extent to which there is oversight or accountability for any so-called ‘law enforcement’ in this country.

      • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
        4·
        7 hours ago

        You’re making a huge mistake if you think I believe that would ever care from a morality standpoint. What I am saying is that they would prefer to appear to be checking and also not have records indicating they would hire known racists/criminals. My theory seems to line up with the author of this article’s experience.