re: Should Police Be "Licensed" and Required to have "Malpractice" Insurance?

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This could be done by maybe having some type of recruitment/partnership with local high school that feeds kids into a 2 year JuCo program before allowing them on the force. They get some life experience but also classroom education on law enforcement. It also connects the community to the police force as this is now their sons, neighbors, ect charged with protecting them

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If you want more mature cops you need to recruit older officers with more life experience and veterans. I think that there is a misconception here that most cops take the job because they have no other options. This is not true, for the most part, in my experience. Most take the job because they don't want to be tied to a desk and because they like the variety of calls and the excitement. At least half of the guys I work with have undergrad degrees and several, like myself, have graduate degrees like myself. I don't do this job for the money as I earned my money in the private sector. I do it to work within the community in which I live and because I enjoy it. I also do have supplemental insurance to cover my personal assets but most cops don't have umbrella policies because they don't have the funds to necessitate one or the means to obtain one.