In a jurisdiction where there is a minimum age to be able to perform the duties of a job, be it for good reason or not, the employer is obligated to follow that law until it gets changed.
Since US police training is relatively shit, and there are plenty of jurisdictions where the age limit is 21. I can’t recall offhand at the moment if the post covers where the job opening is/was, but that could be looked up.
Six months of training to start as a cop is not impossible. Again, that’s by jurisdiction, there’s no single limit afaik. With US police training being shit, a six month span of training wouldn’t surprise me at all.
If that’s the case, and they’re being required the be able to legally carry in their jurisdiction, then dropping the minimum age to apply and be hired for training six months makes as much sense as it only being six months of training in the first place.
Frankly though? I remember that age. I remember how damn many of the people my age at the time were complete idiots. I would be perfectly fine with the age limit being higher than 21 to be a cop. There is such a thing as maturity coming with age. It might not be perfect, but you usually weed out the real idiots by the late twenties.
Legalities.
In a jurisdiction where there is a minimum age to be able to perform the duties of a job, be it for good reason or not, the employer is obligated to follow that law until it gets changed.
Since US police training is relatively shit, and there are plenty of jurisdictions where the age limit is 21. I can’t recall offhand at the moment if the post covers where the job opening is/was, but that could be looked up.
Six months of training to start as a cop is not impossible. Again, that’s by jurisdiction, there’s no single limit afaik. With US police training being shit, a six month span of training wouldn’t surprise me at all.
If that’s the case, and they’re being required the be able to legally carry in their jurisdiction, then dropping the minimum age to apply and be hired for training six months makes as much sense as it only being six months of training in the first place.
Frankly though? I remember that age. I remember how damn many of the people my age at the time were complete idiots. I would be perfectly fine with the age limit being higher than 21 to be a cop. There is such a thing as maturity coming with age. It might not be perfect, but you usually weed out the real idiots by the late twenties.