U.S. Cities Are Lowering Education Requirements for Cops

Finally! Exactly what America needs: less educated cops.

According to a report from USA Today’s N’dea Yancey-Bragg, police departments across the U.S. have been bleeding staff for years. Dallas, for instance, was losing more officers than it hired, even as voters in 2024 demanded the force bulk up to 4,000 strong, which is several hundred more than its all-time peak.

If you’re looking for a reason, it’s roughly the same reason ICE is currently finding it difficult to hire new agents: it’s a profession deemed so untrustworthy, so rife with corruption and racism and brutality, that no one wants to be a part of it.

Rather than change themselves in any way to better benefit the public and, in turn, their own recruitment numbers, police forces across the nation are dropping college education