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throwy4444 t1_iwl9zh0 wrote

Are these state police or a city/town police? If the latter, that can vary from city to city.

Also, it would be interesting to see results when accounting for other variables such as crime levels overall, economic conditions, and poverty levels.

This says no training for Hawaii, but this makes no sense:

https://www.apexofficer.com/police-training-requirements

Apparently Hawaii has a police academy so they must be training something:

https://policeacademyhub.com/hawaii-police-academy-requirements/

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marigolds6 t1_iwllpep wrote

Each state has a minimum level of training to be a license peace officer. That would appear to be what is in the chart. Beyond that, individual departments will have their own academies and their own requirements, as well as separate continuing education requirements.

This is part of why department certification is important. That certification has minimum internal standards for what the department must requirement and must teach in their own academies. Unfortunately, few US departments are certified (though most large cities).

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