The issue is they only hire from uniformed division. And you have to do like 2 years there before.
Are you a DHS Sniper with a ton of quals? Too fucking bad
Are you a FBI regional Swat sniper with shit load of experience? LOL
Are you a retiring or departing Tier 1 sniper looking for a job? NOPE
Are you a LAPD SWAT sniper with more actual line of duty shootings than all the above combined? Try again.
Its a way to get people to hire on for one of the worst law enforcement agencies in the nation to "earn" a potential slot.
If they would open the jobs up to qualified Federal LE snipers and Former Military School Qualified Snipers, even if they had to go through FLET-C and SS specific sniper training they would have more applications than they could process. The SS uses it as a recruiting tool much how the Navy uses the SEALS. They know 95% of them won't make it but they have jobs to fill in the fleet. Its a self inflicted wound of their own making. The fact they don't even keep up on their quals just shows how much of a cluster fuck the entire agency is. Plus imagine what kind of moron would take a bullet for some shitbag politician? Talk about a cuck.