[Delkaetre]

I'm... not happy with this.
I will now admit that I have not sat down and wiki'd the thing, only read the article and resulting thread.

Younger people are more impressionable- it's part of growing up and learning to interact with the rest of the species. So giving them all these highly violent scenarios seems a bit unwise. Dealing with drugs is not all rushing in, guns raised, burning fields of poppy or marijuana. Illegal immigrants are often poor and desperate, and reacting with serious force toward people who are most likely tired, hungry, under-educated and only here because they need to feed their families back home does not offer a good reputation to the country. Using high stress and high-violence training scenarios as you would for fully formed adult police or SWAT does not really seem that likely to teach kids a healthy respect for different cultural origins or situations no matter what is said about 'learning discipline'.

I'd like to know how much of their time is devoted to understanding *why* these things happen, what the root causes of immigration, terrorism, drug use, etc are and how they can be combated with a minimum loss of life. I'd like to know how they're taught to judge a situation, and what they're taught about dealing with victims, and whether they get any training on subtle approaches. The article presents it as teaching teenagers how to be fully grown border police, which seems likely to be misleading. Without the other half of the story, I can only voice my objections to the half I've got here.

For the moment, it seems like a wonderful to teach kids how to violently overreact if they have energetic imaginations or are naturally suspicious.