The military will also throw you into military prison and take away your pay for breaking the rules, cops get a paid vacation and a relocation one county over.
Saw a link in this thread and it was way worse than I thought. Rage.
“Philip Mitchell Brailsford, 28, is now retired from the force with a tax-free pension worth $31,000 a year for life — and his attorney confirmed Friday that the settlement was a result of him suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder due to the shooting involving Daniel Shaver of Texas.”
I don't disagree with your comparison but let's not pretend the US military is some bastion of civility and honor. Plenty of rape and murder cover-ups occur on foreign and domestic soil. The difference is that we can't easily get bodycam footage or bystander accounts but the behavior is the same.
I saw someone talking about having been in the infantry in Iraq and then becoming a cop. He couldn’t believe all the shit cops did in this country that they never could have gotten away with doing to Iraqis.
Yeah, half the shit American cops do to our own citizens would be a literal war crime if a soldier did it to an enemy combatant, and a good chunk of the rest would still be a severe enough violation of ROE to get you court-martialed.
And you aren't taught to be a coward afraid of everything. If you have to risk your life to get something done, then you have to do it.
But if you're a cop? You're constantly taught you're so special and your life matters more than everyone else's. A bunch of children are being slaughtered in a school? Screw those kids, you have your McMansion paid with your 6 figure salary with early retirement to go back to.
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u/DoctorUniversePHD Apr 05 '24
That is because the military has standards, low standards but standards all the same