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A chat on subreddit /r/NoStupidQuestions
human
There’s also no universal standard.

Some police departments have stringent recruiting policies. Some sheriffs departments can just give a badge and a gun to whatever friend needs a job.
gpt
You’ll never get a universal standard in America. Not physical, educational, or anything else for the matter. Let’s say universally all police officers now have to have a bachelors degree and have to pass a certain physical fitness standard. These cities and towns that can only afford to pay their officers 12 or 13 dollars an hour will never be able to hire anyone. 

If you don’t think there are police officers out there only getting paid 10-12 dollars an hour you’re mistaken. You can guarantee no one with a bachelors degree or who can run a mile and half in 12 minutes is going to work for peanuts. 

The difference between the guy who will work for peanuts and the guy who thinks he is owed something is the way they treat the job. That guy out there not making any money wouldn’t do anything to jeopardize his position to lose that job and he is the one who gets punished for they those idiots in Memphis act. 

No I’m not a small town cop.