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Redfairen

(1,276 posts)
Tue Jan 14, 2014, 11:00 PM Jan 2014

Unpaid Interns With Guns: Meet The New Cops

In Oakland, California, the housing authority is looking for officers who can patrol its properties and “perform all the duties of a police officer,” including “drug elimination” and the serving of “evictions and other legal notices.” Applicants with experience in “the safe utilization of firearms” are encouraged to apply.

In Miramar, Florida, the local police are likewise searching for “reserve officers” to perform “the same uniform patrol duties as a full-time officer.” Like their full-time colleagues, these part-time cops will have “the same law enforcement power of arrest.”

In Wichita, Kansas, they are looking for someone to not only make arrests, but to take prisoners to jail as well as conduct “specialized investigations and raids.” The position “involves an element of personal danger,” so applications should have the “ability to accurately and effectively discharge a rifle, shotgun, and handgun with both left and right hands” and should also be able “to react quickly and calmly in emergencies; to record details about names, faces, and incidents quickly, clearly, and accurately.”

All these jobs are dangerous and involve carrying a deadly weapon. They entail giving a human being the power to detain another human being, and the benefit of the doubt if they should shoot one. And all the positions are unpaid.


http://m.vice.com/read/unpaid-interns-with-guns

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Unpaid Interns With Guns: Meet The New Cops (Original Post) Redfairen Jan 2014 OP
Welp jollyreaper2112 Jan 2014 #1
Appeal to the thirst for power. Turbineguy Jan 2014 #2
the perfect solution for the "gang problem" - untie street gangs with police gangs nt msongs Jan 2014 #3

jollyreaper2112

(1,941 posts)
1. Welp
Tue Jan 14, 2014, 11:04 PM
Jan 2014

I can't possibly foresee a way that this could go wrong. I also shop at Walmart and consider the Golden Corral to be haute cuisine.

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