Originally Posted by
Trooper224
You can raise the pay, invest in equipment and maintain strict hiring standards. In the end, none of that will matter. When a profession exhibits leadership that's completely toxic, systematically removes any umbrella of legal protection for individuals and is rabidly hated and vilified by the society it's supposed to serve, no one in their right mind will touch it.
Sometimes the juice isn't worth the squeeze, especially when the fruit is rotten. We are currently witnessing the systematic and intentional destruction of Civilian law enforcement in this country. Within a decade it won't exist and will either be replaced by a national military police gendarme, or the emperor will be shown to have no clothes and we'll all be on our own in the jungle. Either way we're pretty screwed as a society.
China, Russia? Bah. We've met the real enemy, turns out he's us.