Cool story bro
Honestly think you should need at least a bachelors in law to be an officer. The number of times I’ve had to explain the law (specifically the FACE act, which is pretty straightforward federal law, but does have some nuance here in NYC due to NYPD’s operations orders, which were established six years ago) at a protest that has occurred monthly for the past six years, in almost exactly the same way every time, to an officer only to be referred to a lieutenant, and then the community relations department lieutenant (protest and community outreach police, who have been studying the protest since its inception), and then the legal team (who have also been studying and deploy TARU (technical support/surveillance) and the SRG (anti-terrorism, which has shifted to protest groups since there’s not enough terrorism to be fought)), who then have to look up the code on the app the NYPD built for them, and often then call their own chief to confirm (who has to call their legal team — ie the head of the legal department has to call up actual lawyers to confirm the thing they’re supposed to have been enforcing for six years), at a protest where basically no variation occurs month-to-month, is astounding. You’d really think they’d have figured out something after years of sending 300+ cops out for ~150 people monthly for this long, but somehow they still don’t get it.
I’m sure you have your reasons for saying as much beyond trolling, but most of the higher-ups I encounter in one of the largest, well funded, and technically advanced police departments in the world is… disappointingly, unsurprising.
Sorry for OT but I’m sure this German simulation accounts for US law in a faithful manner, as unclear as it often is, while being culturally sensitive to the differences between police in the US and Germany
