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Georgia becomes first state to require election law training for police (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 5 months ago by pelespirit to c/politics

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The new requirement for police trainees to take a one-hour course on election laws is meant to keep officers from trying to guess at how to enforce the law on election day, said Chris Harvey, deputy executive director for the Georgia peace officer standards and training council.

“Cops just really need to know what are some of the basic ground rules around elections and voting, because they’re very specific,” he said. “In my opinion, the worst thing that can happen is if you have a partisan person or partisan force trying to manipulate the police, and have the police not have any idea what they’re supposed to be doing.”

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[–] ElderWendigo 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It is criminally embarrassing that police are not REQUIRED to actually study ethics and the law in order to get licensed to enforce the laws of their jurisdiction. We require licensing for just about everything else: lawyers, doctors, engineers, surveyors, electricians, nurses, hair dressers, and more. But when handing out the authority to enforce increasing complex laws and the legal authority to murder civilians? Nothing really. Just a few weeks of training for the bullies that peaked in highschool.

[–] pelespirit 1 points 5 months ago

It's only an hour of training too, it's not like it's a course or anything.