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  • albert180@piefed.socialtoPolitical Memes@lemmy.worldCops *select for bastards*
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    12 hours ago

    Of course is longer training going to help. Police school is like 3 Months in the US. Obviously that’s insufficient, when it’s 3 years in most European countries.

    In a longer time you can watch them more closely how they behave under pressure, and you have more time to sufficiently train de-escalation tactics, basic psychology etc…



  • Why should a company buy back “ownership” for itself?

    It’s usually just to make the stock price going up without doing anything real to augment it, so the top management hits their bonus triggers and/or their stock options become more valuable.

    So it’s them enriching itself and the owners pay the bill for it.

    For the Shareholders it usually doesn’t create any real value like R&D Investment or giving it back through dividends would do.

    And we’ve seen it in the US like with the Airlines that the companies blew all their profits for Stock Buybacks, and then immediately demanded for a bailout when business became tougher