Epoch Times - You are ONLY One Incident Away from Criminal Charges as A Cop!   #californiainsider #lapd
Aired: 2023-11-07
Duration: 00:46

[00:00:00]  Just to give an example, back 25 years ago when I came on the job, there used to be a thousand applicants a month.
[00:00:05]  A thousand people wanted to be police officers, just a month.
[00:00:08]  And so out of the a thousand, they only took the best 5%.
[00:00:11]  Out of the best 5%, they took the best 50%.
[00:00:13]  Out of the best 50%, they took the best 5%.
[00:00:16]  So you ended up with maybe six, maybe seven a month.
[00:00:19]  They wanted to hire the best of the best.
[00:00:20]  I bring that up to say that I just don't see that in today's.
[00:00:24]  I don't know if a lot of young kids, you know, want to risk their lives knowing that you are one incident away from being filed criminal charges.
[00:00:32]  So when you highlight and sensationalize one incident, I mean, you know, George Floyd didn't help at all.
[00:00:37]  I think the protest and what happened with the George Floyd incident takes an impact as to, you know, hey, I don't want to do that kind of work.
[00:00:43]  I don't want to see myself getting in trouble and getting, possibly going to jail.