If any cops are reading this, itâs not too late. Put down your badge and find a job that doesnât make your neighborsâ lives worse. One of my friends went from police officer to bar accredited lawyer, if she can do it you can too.
No, people leaving an occupation does not increase the amount of people in said occupation. Quite the opposite.
Will it increase the ratio of good:bad? Yes, but so what
No, people leaving an occupation does not increase the amount of people in said occupation.
Thatâs not what I said; I was referring to the job opening being filled again, which doesnât increase the number of total cops, but will almost certainly increase the number of bad* cops. Letâs say a good* cop leaves. There are two scenarios:
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Theyâre replaced with a bad* one. This decreases the number of good* cops and increases the number of bad* cops. This also makes the ratio worse as you noted.
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Theyâre not replaced, and their job position simply vanishes. This results in the loss of one good* cop and no change to the number of bad* cops. This still increases the ratio.
Assuming a little of both happen, if youâre a cop whoâs better than average on a force thatâs not completely overstaffed, quitting will on average cause the absolute number of bad* cops to go up. It also definitely causes the ratio of bad* to good* to go up.
* you know what I mean
Why does that matter? I mean youâre literally directly making the police force worse. Higher rates of corruption, police brutality, civil asset forfeiture, profiling, lack of will to work on hard cases⊠whatever bad things you donât do that the average cop does do, now get done. Whatever good things you do do that the average cop doesnât, now donât get done. Thatâs bad.
inb4 âBut the system has to get worse before it gets better!â
No, thatâs not really how it works. The police and justice systems in America are already at very high levels of corruption, misconduct, and straight up malice. And yet theyâre as strong as ever. Thatâs because a system thatâs exploiting unprivileged people never breaks. If you push it to its limit, the only thing youâre doing is applying more pressure to the people under their boot. You can push and push until their victims are entirely gone and only then will the system think of breaking. How much suffering are you willing to cause before that happens? How many deaths? Thousands? Millions? Even if you successfully create a civil or class war, the results wonât be much better. So no, itâs not a good idea or even a âso what?â idea to intentionally make the system worse. All it does is cause pain and suffering to the people who deserve it the least. Thatâs why you should care.
