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Once upon a time in Puerto Rico, there lived a police officer of the Bayamon Criminal Investigation Corps named Miguel Diaz-Martinez. Miguel was not very good at his job.
Between 1984 and 1989, Diaz Martinez was suspended for assault, collected at least 18 (busy man) recorded disciplinary infractions regarding violent or threatening behavior--mostly for unnecessarily pulling out his gun and waving it around to scare such criminals as those he pulled over for a traffic stop--in what the First Circuit Court of Appeals called "A Career to make St. Sebastian Weep." In August 1989, he assaulted his wife, went back to the police station, grabbed a shotgun, and held several of his coworkers and the police superintendent hostage for several hours. But haven't we all held up a police station at some point in our lives?
Thereafter, Diaz-Martinez was expelled and involuntarily committed to a psychiatric hospital which diagnosed him as a schizophrenic. Although discharged, a psychiatrist strongly recommended that he be given a civilian position far away from any loaded firearms.
However, by May 1993, Miguel had successfully appealed his expulsion from the force, and been assigned desk duty, where (although sadly unarmed) he still managed to assault a civilian. Regardless, the two local police psychiatrists declared him mentally competent and fit for active duty with no restrictions and no supervision required in September 1993, so the department gave him back his gun and assigned him to what the police themselves classified as a "high-tension" neighborhood. The very next day, Miguel shot two innocent, unarmed, law-abiding neighborhood residents (one of whom died) because a local didn't show him his ID fast enough.

JSM: The System works!

Back to desk duty for Miguel (fired? from GOVERNMENT work? Perish the thought), where he threatened to kill a fellow officer in January 1994. Six days later, the same two police psychiatrists again cleared him for active duty. On May 13, 1994, Diaz-Martinez illegally parked in a courthouse space reserved for judges, and when the security guard informed him of this, Diaz-Martinez put his hand on his gun and falsely arrested the security guard, pausing to punch and slap him on the way to jail.
Only a guilty plea to voluntary manslaughter in connection with the September 1993 shootings finally ended Miguel Diaz-Martinez's promising police carreer.
Don't say "oh, it's just Puerto Rico, that could never happen HERE," because I've read cases from all over the country (yes, PR is part of the American Empire, look it up), so trust me, I know all about the skeletons in YOUR local PD's closet. Interesting side note, the New Orleans police department's acronymn is "NOPD."
Here's my point: Without excusing the police superintendent, Diaz-Martinez's coworkers, or the two criminally negligent police "psychiatrists," this all happened WHY? Because the PO-lice aren't paid nearly enough more than those socioeconomically-deprived youths whom the "System" forces into crime. It's very simple: Offer higher salaries, more people want to be police officers, the police superintendent has a larger pool of candidates to choose from and can thus hire better, smarter people overall. And when Miguel "Dirty Harry Riggs McBane" Diaz-Martinez starts gunning down any and all moving targets for bonus points, the superintendent (after the obligatory "the mayor's UP MY ASS you loose cannon but you GET THE JOB DONE!" speech) can go "get out of my police department you whacko!" instead of "complete this required course on managing your feelings, and hurry, because I'm understaffed."
For the love of G-d, double police salaries across the board, everywhere. And public school teacher salaries. We don't need pork spending, we don't need D.A.R.E. (a collossal failure, but I could have told you that when I went through high school), we don't need the National Endowment for the Arts, but we NEED a great police force and good teachers, the former so we can feel safe in our cities, and the latter so that every American citizen has a fair chance at social mobility based on hard work and effort. I can think of a million Double our police officers salaries.
Or Miguel will cap yo ass.

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