• SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zip
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    1 day ago

    I know that many departments have a maximum intelligence limit, but is “too dumb to be a cop” really thing?

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      20 hours ago

      Ice pays less than most local law enforcement jobs and they don’t have to lie about what they do for a living. No one with a real choice is choosing ice.

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          9 hours ago

          That factoid keeps getting pulled out.

          It’s literally untrue, or at the very least misrepresented.

          Half of the country of the USA have only passed 5th Grade English exams, because they then dropped English in preference of other subjects.

          That does not mean they are incapable, just that they’ve only got a little piece of paper somewhere saying “I passed a pointless test!” up to that point.

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          I’d put that down to atrophied reading skills. Actual illiteracy is usually a sign that someone never learned, there’s also functional illiteracy wherein someone can technically read and write but they aren’t interacting with it beyond parroting the words.