Why do lawyers train for 7 years to learn the law, but the cops only train for 8 weeks to enforce it?

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[–]Sebine 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

Different states have different training course lengths.

I'll let you guess which states have the least amount of training.

[–]magnora7[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

I would guess Louisiana probably has the least.

This had some information about some states: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_academy

I'd love to see a US map with each state's training time though. I looked and I couldn't find one.

[–]Sebine 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

From what I was told it was anywhere majority democrat.

Funny that.

[–]magnora7[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Oh I was assumed you were implying the opposite, heh

[–]Sebine 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

From what my friend said, Texas had the longest.

"Everything is big in Texas. Including cop training.
Ignore the deer, we import bigger ones."

[–]magnora7[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

As a Texan myself I'd be incredibly surprised if that was true, to be honest.

In that wikipedia article it says this about Texas police academies:

Police academies typically last from 18 to 30 weeks, though there are many variations.

It might be true though, but if that's the longest then that's pretty sad lol