{"id":179554,"date":"2018-01-03T22:38:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-04T03:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/01\/03\/why-am-i-not-surprised-2\/"},"modified":"2018-01-03T22:38:00","modified_gmt":"2018-01-04T03:38:00","slug":"why-am-i-not-surprised-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/01\/03\/why-am-i-not-surprised-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Am I Not Surprised?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just found out that in most states, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/thefreethoughtproject.com\/hairstylists-required-attend-significantly-training-cops\/\">Hairstylists are Required to Attend Significantly More Training Than Cops<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I guess that a blow drier is more dangerous than a Glock:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Absurdity is a common trait of bureaucracies. But nothing says \u201cwe have no clue about the laws we pass\u201d more than state requirements for law enforcement training. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Police are given the trust of the municipalities in which they \u2018serve\u2019 to uphold the rule of law. They are given a gun and vehicle and a certain level of autonomy in order to accomplish this task.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">They consistently find or place themselves in compromising positions in which they must make life or death decisions; decisions which affect the lives of every person in this country.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">With all of these particularly intricate responsibilities, one would naturally come to the conclusion that a police officer should be required to attend a significant amount of training to achieve maximum proficiency.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Some would assume that the required training to become a trustee of public safety and carry the vast responsibility of a police officer would require considerably more time than say, the training that it takes to learn how to cut hair.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">However, they would assume incorrectly.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In New York, hairstylists need 50% more training than cops, and in California,&nbsp; it&#8217;s 140% more.<\/p>\n<p>Something is seriously f%$#ed up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just found out that in most states, &#8220;Hairstylists are Required to Attend Significantly More Training Than Cops.&#8221; I guess that a blow drier is more dangerous than a Glock: Absurdity is a common trait of bureaucracies. But nothing says \u201cwe have no clue about the laws we pass\u201d more than state requirements for law &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[397,450,526,437],"class_list":["post-179554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-education","tag-employment","tag-law-enforcement-misconduct","tag-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179554"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}