US: 600-700 hours on average, much of which is gun and combat training and not policing
Canada 2080 hours
Spain 2880 hours
Germany 4000 hours
With that little time spent training and heavy combat focus a US cop might get as little as 2-4 weeks of training on everything that a cop does that doesn’t involve guns. People get shot by US cops because they weren’t taught anything else. People don’t get help from US cops because they were never taught solving problems that don’t involve shooting a minority.
Cartman yelling respect my authoritah! is not far off from what a rookie US cop knows about being a police officer.
Mandatory training to become a police officer:
With that little time spent training and heavy combat focus a US cop might get as little as 2-4 weeks of training on everything that a cop does that doesn’t involve guns. People get shot by US cops because they weren’t taught anything else. People don’t get help from US cops because they were never taught solving problems that don’t involve shooting a minority.
Cartman yelling
respect my authoritah!is not far off from what a rookie US cop knows about being a police officer.