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For one thing, a foreign national's oath to uphold our Constitution may ring a little hollow.
I somehow don't think San Fran's PD leadership/San Fran City Council cares anything about such things like upholding oaths of office
or the Constitution in general other than whatever is useful for their causes.
But you can serve in the U S military. I've known some pretty patriotic green card holders.
That's a little different when they are typically serving as representatives of the US against other nations in foreign lands, only beholden to abide by a strict hierarchy, not required to be intimately familiar with the tenants of US civilian law and not policing US citizens on American soil. Not to mention allowing a foreign national access to citizens sensitive data and have influence over policy.
I don't think so. I've known some non-citizens who hold the constitution in much higher regard than a lot of citizens.
While I can agree with both of you and in fact have a friend who has been a Resident Alien in the US for 71 years, was drafted and spent 3 years in the army, and is as patriotic to America as anyone you will ever meet, I don't think the pool of people San Francisco will be drawing from include many of those kinds of people.
Amongst your many good points, these two made me think of someone whose background is sharia law or the gross levels of bribery rampant and more readily accepted in other countries.
You might be surprised how many good people want to be cops, but cannot due to various disqualifiers. The "fog a mirror" hiring practices of the past doesn't work.
The issue being.. there appears to be no procedural process to limit foreign national from enforcing US laws against US citizens on US soil to only those that are sufficiently "patriotic" and beholden to the ideologies of the United States.
I haven't seen any USGI M4s with M4 lowers that have that 3rd hole and select fire lever in any non-LEO civilian hands within the US
that'd be something that the AFT would probably Keep a very close eye on... but bought from the Taliban from the equipment we left in Afghanistan? Probably gonna be relatively difficult to smuggle unless going from the South or within the "refugee" luggage in pieces Well for one thing they have the authority to put you in handcuffs and throw you in jail, nobody at Burger King ever threaten me with that. Originally we let them come in to our country and work so they can pick fruit and do the low paying jobs Americans don't want to do and go home with their money when the season is over Now it appears they want people with non-vested interests that they can get to just "follow orders" to police us.
You seem to be operating under the assumption they are all uneducated, low-level labor workers with nothing else to offer, or here illegally.
