Police academy training for pimps

Police Officer turned Love Island US contestant faces backlash

Sean Reifel’s joined the cast of the popular reality series less than a year after he joined his hometown’s police force.

BBC NewsSareen Habeshian

"I never thought I'd see the day in America where reality show participation wins out over being a police officer," Mayor J. William Reynolds said. ¶"Our police department spent a lot of time training and we paid thousands of taxpayer dollars to send him to the police academy," the mayor said, according to Fox8. ¶The vacant position cannot be filled until next year, he added.

And yet here we are in Alaska with state troopers producing and putting on a reality television show professionally to supplement their $200,000 state salary, subsidized housing, and personal use of police vehicles.

They think they're such beautiful people to put on a reality television show instead of focusing on the real job at hand, which is and must be just as well documented and recorded, but for court, not for popular entertainment. And that is a big difference. People who might otherwise watch television and laugh when it's appropriate to laugh are suddenly serious when they're called into court for jury duty, and they just don't appreciate the sitcom attitude of working cops on the beat in a place of judgment.