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Scissors Vs. Guns: Barbers Get More Training Than Cops
And then we wonder why things keep going so wrong
If you wonder why we keep reading about horrific cases of police brutality and mind-boggling cases of inept homicide investigations that put innocent people behind bars and let murderers go free, here’s a pretty good guess about what’s going wrong.
If you want to be a barber in my state you will have to complete a 1,500-hour program of study, according to . If you want to be a cop, you only need 560 hours of basic training, according to the. (Most other states have somewhat similar for police training, although Hawaii has none.)
I want to get a good haircut as much as the next person, but I don’t think I’m the only one who is far more concerned about the training of people armed with guns than of those who wield scissors.
Do I even need to make a list of the horrific stories about police brutality?
About all the times police have killed someone in circumstances no reasonable person can comprehend? All the instances of a mentally ill person who wasn’t a threat being killed?
