Grenades filled with rubber pellets and other so-called ‘less lethal’ munitions have been increasingly deployed, despite being linked to serious injuries and even deaths
  • stoy@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    4 days ago

    Yeah, it is a decent education that is required to become a police officer here, unfortunately some stupid crap is going on with the police here in Sweden.

    1. The requirements for being a police officer has been reduced in steps, this is due to the status of the police job has been lowered, so fewer people apply.
    2. This is infuriatingly stupid. There has been scandals where gang members have infiltrated the police, a few years back an employee of the police was caught letting unauthorized persons access the police database. Then recently I read that management discovered that their background checks of new hires was in some way illegal, and they decided to stop the background checks, but keep hiring new personel, only without checks…

    Fucking stupid.