The CNN article literally links to the GOVERNMENT WEBSITES listing the requirements to be an officer you donkey...You compare the time required to be a barber with the training a police officer receives, link an article from cnn.
Fucking brilliant
For example, it links to this:
https://www.michigan.gov/mcoles/0,4607,7-229-41624-150154--,00.htmlAll training academies are required to teach, as a minimum, the state's basic training curriculum, which is 594 hours in length. At the completion of the academy, all graduates are required to pass a licensing examination administered by the state.
and this:
https://post.ca.gov/regular-basic-coursehe Standard Format of the Regular Basic Course is delivered in a one-part instructional sequence with a minimum requirement of 664 hours.
It doesn't matter WHO/WHERE you see a claim, only if it is backed up with solid facts, which this CNN article is...
And BJS (from the US DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE) Lists 840 hours as the average as of 2013:
https://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/slleta13.pdfExcluding field training, the average length of a basic law enforcement training program in a training academy was about 840 hours, or 21 weeks (table 5).