Diversity or Safety? Justice Dept. Orders Lower Standards for Police Exam
The process is time-consuming, expensive, and manpower-intensive, and that is just before an applicant is offered a job.
What most people don’t realize is that from the first day that a recruit reports for work, an average of a year will pass before they are ready to patrol the streets alone. For a year, each new recruit will draw pay and benefits but will provide no direct police services to their community. Not only that, other officers will be taken from directly serving the public to train and prepare those new officers. This year-long process is absolutely necessary and very expensive.
Hiring an applicant likely to fail is potentially dangerous and an egregious waste of taxpayer dollars.
During their first year, officers are commonly put through a state-mandated training academy, which they must pass to receive state certification as police officers. In addition, they must pass training courses within their own agencies, the most important of which is a field training course wherein they ride with a variety of seasoned officers specially trained to educate and evaluate new recruits.
Some are too dangerous or inept with firearms. Some are temperamentally unsuitable. Some simply can’t write competent reports. Some can’t multi-task, and can’t drive, be aware of their surroundings, and simultaneously speak on the radio. Only after successfully passing all of these experiences is an officer allowed to work on their own. Only then are citizens getting their money’s worth.
What’s more, to put one officer on the street 24/7/365, approximately four officers must be hired. That’s three officers for three eight-hour shifts, and at least one to cover for vacation, illness, court, mandatory training, and other issues that will routinely remove any officer from their duties. With all of this in mind, and considering the very real dangers of an undermanned police force, unnecessarily delaying the process for months for any reason is reckless and unconscionable.
It is difficult to believe that Mr. Holder understands any of these issues.
Most people do not, and most attorneys have no special claim to knowledge of these issues. Even if Mr. Holder is given the benefit of the doubt for having the sole, admittedly admirable motive of eliminating invidious, intentional racial discrimination, the actions of the DOJ in this case are at best destructive.
There is, however, good reason to think that his motives are not so benign and noble.
It’s clear that the city of Dayton secured a new test, no doubt at considerable expense, to eliminate any potential disparate impact. With passing scores of 66% and 72%, it’s also clear that Dayton was trying to placate the DOJ — few agencies would be comfortable with such low passing scores. Remember, these tests are initial screening instruments only. One need not be a rocket scientist to score at the 90th percentile or higher, and anyone scoring below 80% need not expect a call from the Nobel Prize Committee anytime this century. (Mr. Obama and Mr. Gore excepted, of course).
Demanding passing scores of only 58% and 63% guarantees that many people plainly unsuitable for the job, people who would be eliminated at very little cost at the first step, will be accepted for further testing. That testing, for candidates obviously not qualified and capable, will incur substantial additional costs at a time when cities and states have no money to spare. It will also — if the DOJ will allow it — subject people to the cruelty of being dropped after weeks and months when shortcomings that were initially, painfully obvious are too dangerous to be overlooked any further.
Surely Mr. Holder understands this?
But perhaps the worst consequence of Mr. Holder’s dumbing-down of the process is that the mere lowering of test scores sends a very powerful message: the financial resources of the federal government will be used to ensure that a quota of favored candidates — numbers and races to be determined solely by the DOJ — will not only be hired, but will be put on the street in blue suits with badges and guns and the power to use them.
Which agency will fail to understand that people who would not normally pass any of the checks and tests that follow placement on an eligibility list will pass those checks and tests, particularly if they are members of DOJ-favored candidate groups? Which agency will fail to understand that members of one particular group — white males — not only may be but must be eliminated in favor of those unquestionably less qualified and capable? Surely Mr. Holder understands this as well? Why then would Mr. Holder want to place unqualified, dangerous people of any gender or ethnicity in police work? As Mr. Obama is fond of saying, “make no mistake” that unqualified police officers are inevitably dangerous to themselves, their fellow officers, and to the public.
Again, allowing the benefit of the doubt, Holder may be single-mindedly determined to eliminate discrimination, even unintentional, incidental discrimination. But such noble desires must always be weighed against their foreseeable and potential unintended negative consequences. In this case, the foreseeable and potential consequences are clear, and to any rational person, should stay their hand in enforcing such damaging policies on the citizens of Dayton and the rest of America. No American police force can fail to understand what will happen to them should their hiring practices come to Mr. Holder’s attention. Again, giving him the benefit of the doubt, surely he would not intend such blatant, thuggish, Chicago-style intimidation?
Another possibility is that Mr. Holder and his like-minded managers at the DOJ cannot possibly imagine unintended future consequences. This state of affairs would mean that the leadership and upper management of the Obama/Holder Department of Justice, despite having the benefit of substantial higher education, are of a kind with those scoring far below 70% on an entry level police exam. In essence, they’re too stupid to know what they don’t know and are stubbornly proud of it.
The third possibility is that Mr. Holder and his managers are Progressive social and racial true believers, intent on imposing their views of social justice on society regardless of the Constitution, the law, common sense, common decency, and the costs or the deadly consequences of their policies. I’ll leave it to the reader to choose between the possibilities, but this possibility would seem to be the likely choice of a man determined to take care of “my people.” Who else would think, let alone say, such a thing?
It’s common knowledge that the first “post-racial president” has so often injected race into the national discourse. It’s also a shame that Mr. Holder, Mr. Obama’s choice as attorney general, America’s chief law enforcement official, seems to know and care so little about actual police officers and the communities they serve. Greater is the shame that he seems unaware that all of the American people are the people of the U.S. attorney general.
How can any self-respecting Black person tolerate this? How can any Black person who worked hard to attain any distinction in their career tolerate this? Is there going to be any organized opposition to this from conscientious Black Americans?
As the quote in the article from NAACP demonstrates, there are black civil rights advocates who oppose this idiocy.
I’d like ALL Secret Service personnel assigned to protection of this Administration’s individuals to be exclusively from this group of sub-standard applicants.
I agree, the Secret Service should use these sub-standard applicants to protect this administration
Great article. Compelling reading.
Holder is a menace to society, by any measure.
But then there has probably never been a high federal official as obviously unqualified as Holder is to perform his job duties. He is probably the ultimate example of affirmative action in the country’s history, challenged only by Obama himself. Surely Holder knows he is mentally unequipped for the challenges of his job, but he undoubtedly believes he is still doing great work in the position. Why shouldn’t he extend that thinking to other people seeking positions of authority they also are unqualified to fill.
affirmative action at it’s best . how humiliating to know you nee a “dumb’ test.. there will be many taking this test.. and they don’t need to identify those taking the test, we’ll be able to see with our own eyes, and they won’t be ashamed one little bit. So, let them guard the minority group they come from.
now when someone says “dumb a$$ cop”…they will be spot on!
It’s like the dmv and walmart…i am convinced that one has to take a ‘how stupid are you test” to work either place
what has happened to our country? the america i grew up in we strived to be the best, now it’s striving to be ‘mediocre’ at best.
when we have people like obama and biden leading us..we will fall as rome did. get rid of these people!
He’s not a “Menace”. He’s a RACIST. Just like his Boss. Just like that Broad at the U.N. Just like Conyers and Waters and Sheila Jackson Lee, and Barbara Lee. Just like Sharpton, Lewis, and the NAACP. Just like Frank Marshall Davis, Jeremiah Wright and Louis Farrakhan. Just like the Black Panthers. Which brings us back to the Justice Department.
To every WHITE who voted for this man, I say: Congratulations. Your conscience is clear. We have a Justice department, in this country, that only caters to BLACKS. And it’s all because of YOU.
Wake Up White People.
Have some PRIDE, for God’s sake.
Get used to it. They’ve been doing this for doctors since I was in med school 25 years ago.
Amen
My reply to the article;
“Why Every Kid in America Doesn’t Need to Be Educated”, by Frank J. Fleming, at PJM:
March 13, 2011 – 6:47 am
It’s getting to the point where they don’t ‘get’ a job, they ‘take’ a job.
More endowment of entitlements.
No, this is great. Finally, a break through that will overcome racial discrimination. The next key step, of course, is to require colleges and universities to hire more white players. They’ll no longer be able to say “we hire the best players,” now they’ll have to hire basketball players according to racial quotas. It is a concept who’s time has come!
Yeah, I’m 5’5″ and white, and my people are under-represented statistically in basketball:)
It would help if you were also gay and obese and a cross-dresser on top of that, you would be in the starting lineup every game!
It is quite obvious that Mr. Holder is a great supporter of racial discrimination. It is also sad that he and others like him keep minorities down for their own political gain by not require them to live up to their potential and keeping them dependant, and for engendering resentment for their special treatment.
In the town that I live in the percentage of applicants that passed all the tests and training and passed the first year probation on the street was less than 3%. That is until a large expansion in the force required the police to lower the standards to 8% to fill the vacancies. I have heard older officers say that some of the new officers from the 8% are just scary. I wonder what the Dayton PD will look like in 2 years and how much the lawsuits will cost the city because of inept, dangerous or crooked cops that their lax tests will require to be hired.
If you have the opportunity then you might want to move from that city! It will not be safe even for a traffic stop, no telling what an armed cop might do!
I am surprised more blacks have not come forward to oppose this.It is very frightening because the police and fire forces have to make quick second solutions which require sound judgment.
I do not remember if this occurred two or three years ago,Gov Deval Patrick
loyal friend of Obama allowed teachers who flunked the teachers math test to teach.This happened in the cesspool of corrupt Massachusetts controlled by the democrats for the last forty to fifty years.
And I guess it is still thought-crime to state the fact that blacks score lower on IQ tests than whites and Asians, about one standard deviation lower.
Why not assign some of those dumb down cops to Eric Holder’s security detail?
He needs a security detail only after he is impeached and removed from office and possibly imprisoned!
That way they can talk to each other on the same level.
“The third possibility is that Mr. Holder and his managers are Progressive social and racial true believers, intent on imposing their views of social justice on society regardless of the Constitution, the law, common sense, common decency, and the costs or the deadly consequences of their policies.”
This is not the third possibility, this is the ONLY possibility. Your website reported the person responsible for the DOJ policy is Loretta King. She is the same stooge who dismissed the black panther intimidation lawsuit. She is also the same one who was involved in the new york city firefighter case. There are no possibilities besides the third possibility.
Maybe they assign the new cops to go after the dumber perps. They should lower entrance requirements for minority med school applicants as well. After all, it’s only fair. And fairness is what it is all about. Yeah, yeah, it might have an adverse effect on patient care, but we need to think of the bigger picture. Self esteem is to imoprtant to sacrifice to competence.
Good post, Carla. LOL.
If we can find enough mayors and governors with backbones who will stand up to these goons, we might be able to slow them down. Otherwise this is like a car picking up speed as it rolls over the cliff.
“…commonly put through a physical fitness test to weed out obvious…lack of fitness that would render them dangerous to themselves or others”
Weed out the fatties? What department is this?
What city does that anymore? Not mine.
Nothing BUT fatties in my local department…some of them can barely walk, being 5 foot 6 and approaching 300 lbs…there are guys who literally cant find BODY ARMOR big enough to cover their fat bellies….
And the bad guys TEACH things in prison you know…its Grad School for practicing how to thwart common police moves, holds, techniques, etc…
No lie, they PRACTICING RIGHT NOW how grapple up close, and shoot ‘up and under” those fat protruding bellies, where the body armor doesnt “wrap under” enough…
The CONS know youre all fat…
WE just know youre all useless, and cost too much
What do you expect from an administration that is headed by an individual who would not even pass a basic background check or be given an entry level management position in any major corporation?
The author seems to think that AG Holder cares about professional policing and the safety of the community. His agenda to do harm to all except “his people” was revealed in the Black Panther decision. As the president fills out his basketball picks, entertains R&B moguls, and dances in Rio, Holder will be keeping the home fires burning (Nero fideling while Rome burns comes to mind). Holder was selected speciically to make certain that the few liberties left to American are eroded beyond redemption and then we will have the utopia the O’Bama envsioned.
Are all the people (note I did say citizens) who voted for this fool ashamed of themselves yet or is more incompetence necessary?
What’s next???? An honorary police certification, with every purchase of 2 quarts of Micky’s Malt Liquor.
The MILITARY is next! They are already working overtime on destroying that, too. Apparently, too many white males pass all of the schools, are too motivated to succeed (read: work hard), and become experienced combat leaders, which gets them promoted to the senior ranks. You obviously can’t have that because that is not an equal outcome! So, now they are going make sure females are going to get assigned to combat units (oh, oh, now you need to lower physical standards and make the schools easier to pass both physically and mentally. Better have porto potties brought along with you wherever you go, etc.) and lower the academic test scores to allow blacks/hispanics get through more easily (from scholarships, to initial training in difficult fields, to professional education, to theory work).
Except to leftists, the end result is all too obvious: men are going to die when they didn’t have to and the country is going to be weaker.
Did you know that Obama just promoted a female Marine to General? A day later, she admitted that she was a lesbian!
I think something similar was done in he District of Columbia about 15 years ago and wasn’t there a suit launched by police or firemen in Bridgeport, Connecticut because of such discrimination> Eventually it was resolved but not in favor of the minority.
I would hate to get a job based on nothing more than a quota. I would rather get a job based on my merit, and abilities. I wouldn’t want to wind up thinking people know I got this job just because I was a part of the “diversity” pool.
If diversity training benefits everyone, why do those classes mostly consist of white heterosexual males?
I can tell you exactly what happens when this principle is applied to naval aviators, and it ain’t pretty. After all, the Vice CNO and nominee for CINCPAC was fired merely for approving a report recommending that an unsat female traiinee be washed out. And then there was Kara Hultgreen, who fortunately only killed herself though she damn near took her RIO and many deck crew with her.
As one LSO drily put it, “The ramp is gender-neutral.”
In my flight school class, a 50% wash out rate was typical. Of course, when two blacks washed out, they cried discrimination. So all the females and blacks were told they would not be failed. The result?
Very high accident statistics for blacks and female pilots !
The only requirement that would have omitted Obama would have been the lie detector test.
I’m going to suggest this to my Congressman. I’m sure it will send chills up his spine.
I have watched minorities, one in particular, be used by the social justice ideaologs for decades now and it sure doesn’t seem to bother most of them to be used and potrayed as intellectually inferior. Racism is kept alive today by those socialist and minorities whose only interest is special entitlement and national race division. Imagine how all the minorities, one in particular, that have accomplished their place in society by doing it the old fashioned way….working hard to earn it, and how they must feels seeing these kinds of degrading mandates on their behalf…at least on behalf of their race and skin color.
Mr. McDaniel, you have written one of the best posts I’ve ever read. If Holder is the AG for “his people”, do the rest of us do without one? When even the NAACP speaks up for sanity, the illegitimi really have gone too far! Perhaps Mr. Aristide in Haiti can find Holder a job more suited to his talents.
There is another possibility, far worse than those mentioned- that Obama and Holder want people they control with guns and uniforms our in the streets of American cities. Individuals without the intelligence or educational background to question an order they are given. A prelude and a facilitator of martial law.
But beating people to enforce redistribut… er, “sharing” doesn’t take any competence but being a thug and a sense of entitlement fed by a share of the lavish perqs and benefits.
Gee, I have the perfect solution. Extend Title Nine to law enforcement. It’s a well known fact that females are grossly under-represented in law enforcement–males typically make up 90 percent of the rank and file on average–surely this a Title Seven violation after all these years. So, as with all those former school male sports programs that were canceled, reduce funding of current male officers and swat teams–forcing layoffs but also wage and pension savings– until current female staffing levels are at parity to males–I’m sure neighborhood watch programs and citizen patrol volunteers can make up any person power shortages during the transition to gender parity. In the meantime, concentrate on hiring female officers from ethnic minorities and get a two for one on the affirmative action bang for the buck–girls are smarter than males and usually don’t have criminal records. Once the gender ratios are at parity then hire back males on a one to one ratio with females. See? Surely if preferences can work for black males, it can work for females too!
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I am ashamed of my Country.
It’s every man for himself now.
This seems to fit right in with the current U.S. policy on all jobs from the President on down. The president is the least possible qualifies candidate ever to occupy that office, and could not be any less qualified without being a convicted felon.
Are we a great country, or what?
The first person whoever said “In America, anyone can become President of the U.S.” didn’t realize how right they would turn out to be. To our misfortune.
‘Hope’ became a job qualifier over experience and now we have a guy who should be on the bench as the ‘star’.
In the NBA, instead of starting people by points scored or rebounds, they should start people based on ‘most optimistic’. Then we can change the name from NBA to USA (Using Substitutes Association). The teams with the most losses make the playoffs.
“Why then would Mr. Holder want to place unqualified, dangerous people of any gender or ethnicity in police work?”
How many times does Holder have to say “my people” before everyone “gets” he’s a racist? Gee, how hard was that?
Affirmative Action has destroyed the education system that got us to the moon. Now, liberals are trying to destroy our public safety. They just finished incorporating a system that will destroy our medical system (Obamacare). What’s next?
Consent Decree blah, blah, blah, Why in the hell is the DOJ sticking their nose into the city of Dayton, Ohio’s police department. If this isn’t Big Brother I do not know what is.
Holder and our President are seriously confused about priorities and their power at all levels. I wonder when they’ll start straightening out dog catchers and litterers.
The sooner they are gone the happier we should all be.
Holder … intends blatant, thuggish, Chicago-style intimidation, he and every other member of the pretender’s pack is too stupid to know what he doesn’t know and is stubbornly proud of it. All of them are fascistic fascisssocialist and racialist true believers, intent on imposing their institutionalized envy and “social justice” (theft and “redistribution”) on America, regardless of the united States’ Constitution, our Law, common sense, common decency and the costs or the deadly consequences of their policies.
Here we see the usual response from Democrats or other bleeding hearts to a problem they created…more of the problem. It is a profound disservice to lower the bar; especially for these candidates for public service.
Hold the bar high and those who rise to overcome it are strengthened; lower the bar and the weak remain so or get weaker. If any human being is held back from striving for something hard to obtain that person dies a death more painful than that of having never made the attempt-even if they fail.
The bleeding hearts kill millions with sympathy devoid of understanding.
Becoming a Dayton Police Officer was the proudest day of my life, not only for myself but for my family. That was in the mid 70′s and you earned the badge and gun on your own merit and hard work. After retiring I carried my retirment badge still proud of the service I had given to the citizens of Dayton. I took that badge and placed it in a dresser drawer yesterday, because of Mr. Holder and the DOJ it does not have the luster it use to have. The pride is gone, knowing that any person walking down the street can be hand picked, fail a written test, have no common sense, and still walk the halls of justice that I did for 25 years. Minority ? Majority ? pick the Best and let God do the rest.
Can’t wait for the reduction in the Academy class scores that will be required and all of the other tests and probation standards that will have to be changed to make sure this ‘new breed’ can make the cut.
I had a good laugh at this article. Back in 1977 I applied for a major metropolitan police force. I scored 4th in a field of 956 people. I never got hired. In fact I never made it past the review board. I had a couple of friends on the force, older guys in their 40′s , I was 21 at the time. They shook their heads, commiserated and said too bad you’re a WASP. I asked what that had to do with it. They laughed bitterly and said wait til you see who will be on the review bioard interviewing you. It was 4 people, 3 civilians , one police officer. The three civilians were a mexican woman, black man, and feminazi liberal. The police officer was a black fellow. I snidely commented upon as being fortunate enough to afford the 350 dollar suit I was wearing…the only one I owned, I got the best cause it would last me 10 yrs. I was asked how many black friends I had, mores the pity I grew up in an all white neighborhood in the suburbs. The liberal feminazi asked who my favorite president was…I said Nixon. Suffice it to say my “interview” score was 56%. I never heard from the police dept. thereafter. I have an IQ of 145, the top 1/4 of a percentile in the world, a degree in law enforcement from a major university and am a white anglo-saxon protestant. How unfrigging qualified could I be? I went into private security consultations instead, I made a good living up til 9/11, then I made a great living there after. I’m 54 yrs old and have been retired for 5 yrs now. Guess they got the best candidate for the spot I was aiming for didn’t they??
And that was in 1977. What do you think it’s like today?
There was a mini-furor a few years ago when it was revealed that several police depts. were giving intelligence tests to applicants and automatically rejecting those who scored too high. Sounds like you fell victim to a similar policy.
@Ray (#34): You should take that badge to Dayton PD headquarters, toss it on the chief’s desk and tell him to throw it out with the rest of the trash. An ex-Marine did that to the local recruiter with his old medals & ribbons after the USMC decreed that no one with a Confederate flag tattoo could enlist.
One correction, the comment WAS snidely made by the mexican female before the interview process began
If Holder’s DOJ wants to be consistent and prove it’s not racist, they should launch a “disparate impact” study on college athletic scholarships for basketball and football. How many good students with passible athletic ability of white or Asian persuasion are NOT given scholarships in place of blacks who can run fast or jump high? Perhaps coaches should be forced to lower their standards for 100m dash times and free throw accuracy in order to accommodate slower students and provide for a more “equal” outcome.
Time to go after the NBA and NFL – I want to see more of “my people”. Please – give us a chance – just one.
The soft racial bias of ‘low expectations’.
I was reading something recently about getting rid of the new welfare state, cracking down on all those folks who have managed to resurrect welfare benefits since they were banned under Clinton.
Part of this proposed crack-down was to insist that they “get a job”. And I wondered to myself where on earth these jobs were going to come from, for illiterate unemployable welfare recipients, when we currently have 10% unemployment for normal people.
So doubtless Mr. Holder is just trying to lessen the welfare roles by funneling all welfare recipients through the Dayton police force, where they will one by one become perforated, fall down, go away, and no longer be a burden to society.
Once again, I recommend all to read “The Bell Curve” by Richard-J.-Herrnstein
I remember when the book was making headlines in the media. I never read the book, but the premise seems so logical. Why do Asians excel in intelligence? Why do blacks excel in sports? Why do whites fall in between? Why are some races more prone to certain diseases? In effect what Holder is saying is “I know many blacks are not as smart as whites. So what? Just lower the standard.” But he’s doing it for “his people”. If I were black, I would be insulted.
History forgotten… think Miami Florida, mid 80′s, The River Cops. What happens when standards are lowered.
First, competent, rational folks of all ethnicities and backgrounds are appalled by this intervention. Foward (NAACP), Beane (union), former DPD officers, like Ray #34 above, and many, many others have spoken out.
Second, as McDaniel details so well, the recruitment, assessment and hiring process is long, arduous and comprehensive – as it should be. The fact that low-scoring yahoos will be added to the eligibility list means little. In this case, being added to the list means they’re eligible for the next round of screening, not eligible to be hired.
Third, eligibility lists have a limited shelf life. Most lists are certified for a year or two at most, and then they expire.
I’m recounting these facts to stay calm, because personally, I’m livid that Holder and crew have done this.
It’s yet another proof this president and his administration have no grasp of or respect for the Constitution, law, business, economics, job creation, international politics, national security, energy independence, law enforcement, border protection … the list is endless. The Dayton decision is just one more example. They’ve weakened our country at home and abroad and harmed each of us in countless ways little and big.
For two years, I’ve wondered HOW we’d survive BO. Now I’m beginning to wonder IF we’ll survive BO.
The problem is the government wants black people to have jobs but black people consistently struggle with tests.
Academics have known for several decades that blacks have, on average, much lower IQs than whites. The average black IQ in America is about 80.
This is why we see 50% school dropout rates for blacks in America and of the other 50% that do graduate, 50% of those are functionally illiterate.
Blacks simply struggle with academics. Especially in a white majority country like America since white Americans have an average IQ of about 105.
They’re constantly having to compete with people who are simply smarter than they are.
As a result, testing requirements are constantly having to be lowered so blacks can get ahead in life.
This is bad news for our society in general in my opinion since it dumbs down the entire population.
The solution needs to be a full acknowledgement of this intelligence gap so we can develope real solutions.
The only way blacks can overcome these inherent disadvantages is to simply work harder.
They have to pound the testing material into their heads over and over until they have it memorized.
That way they can overcome their learning disability through repetition.
I know all of this sounds extremely racist, but it’s the truth and we all know it.
Denying it because it will hurt their feelings doesn’t help blacks. It just prolongs their lower class status.
let me tell you stupid people something just because you pass the poilce exam is noway, shape ,or form means you are competent for the job
“let me tell you stupid people something”
Maybe not. But it sure as hell indicates we have reading and comprehension skills, to say nothing of spelling and grammar. As you, apparently and to your everlasting shame, do not!
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” am black and i do not believe blacks can’t pass the police exam.”
You’re kidding. Who could tell?
the most important thing a good professional police officer have is integrity. test scores does not determine qualifications. integrity does jackass! remember, rodney king,shane bell, oscar grant who was shot in the back while laying on the ground handcuffed and the list go’s on.the bottom line is integrity not test scores.
look stupid! what good is reading comprehension skills if a cop shoots your mother in the back for no reason. what good is reading comprehension if the cop take away the freedom of innocent people.what good is reading comprehension if the cop kick you in your ass because you said something he did not like.i guess a police officer can rape your sister and commit crimes that’s okay with you because he has reading comprehension skills.you are a true jackass!
you need to stop with your lies.you only need to look at george w bush and that in itself prove you are a liar.
I see this has opened the door for all the racist to denigrate Blacks. Just goes to show you all how intelligent you are. Furthermore, I don’t feel ANYONE who can’t pass a police test, should be a cop. You are either D.A.S. (dumb as s h i t) or just plain brain dead. Those tests, themselves are already dumbed down to such a degree, a 5th grader can pass them. I personally feel no one should be a police officer unless they are at least 25 years of age and have two years of college under their belts (an AA/AS degree at minimum)
What they need to do is better psychological testing as many (like some of the racist here) are on the forces….As for that—Many of you would fail and or if you are presently an officer, should be immediately dismissed for psychological rreasons…..OH——I pray none of those who made racist comments are or willin the future be on anyone’s ploice force.
LMAO at you racists: It was and is all and well when you all get a job because of your color (white) but when it’s reversed, you feel as if the carpet has been snatched out from under you. Now I know some dumb ass whites, even those who purport to be intelligent but I accept them for who they are, what they are capable of and what they bring to the table as everyone has strengths and weaknesses.
NO!!!!—-Testing should not be dumbed down for ANYONE-=—NOR should anyone be given a pass because of their color—white or Black or Brown. What most of you are missing is the purposful dumbing down of those who attended inept school systems of which I am sure many of you making racist comments never had to endure—-I hope and pray none of you are a cop and made those comments, had your comments seen by your commander. As well, I pray I never have to deal with any of you…
The problem with your theory is that nearly all schools have been teaching to the lowest level, “no child left behind” often years below what anyone in that grade should be studying. College is no better unless one is studying a hard science.
If one’s parents make learning a priority over everything else, if they are part of a culture that does so then learning is possible, excelling is possible. If athletics or anything else is the priority then real learning is practically impossible. It has been that way in the US for decades.
Look to the culture of these groups and you will understand the differences. The racists are those who keep these cultures separate and ignorant.
I am black and i do not believe blacks can’t pass the police exam.this is racial propaganda.We need to focus on who is giving the test and who is scoring the test because i am convince that there is a lack of integrity with in the testing process.what should be most important is a police officer performing his or her duties with the up most integrity for example,rodney king, shane bell, oscar grant shot in the back while lieing on the ground hand cuffed and the list go’s on. these are the same police officers who pass the test and are far from being qualifried for the job.so scoring high on the test noway, shape or form indicates that police officers are competent. test score does not determine qualification integrity does.
Multiculturalism in Dayton and Midsomer
We’ve all heard of creeping socialism, especially lately when it’s leaping more than creepting in America. We should hear more about creeping, leaping multiculturalism. The mindless quest for diversity is as much of a threat to sanity and nationhood.
For example, what would or should the average person do if he or she were turned down for a job because he or she was unqualified or underqualified or was just deemed unable to satisfactorily perform the duties of the job description?
One option would be to sulk, but that’s not very productive. Another might be to study and prepare better so that next time around you did make the grade, but that takes time and effort. A third option would be to just look for another job, but that would make sense.
The ultimate recourse would be to complain, complain about everything from unfair employment practices to personality differences with the potential employer, to discrimination of some sort. Blacks and other minorities have often resorted to the latter excuse and have won. In the case of the Dayton Police Department’s test for recruits they didn’t have to complain. Eric Holder’s Department of Justice did it for them.
Without citing any specific reason, aside from the fact black and other minority candidates failed to achieve the exam’s modest passing scores of 66% on part one and 72% on part two, the DoJ ordered the results thrown out and new passing standards to be implemented. According to DaytonNewsSource.com, the DoJ “approved new scoring policy [which] only requires potential police officers to get a 58% and a 63%.” As DNS observed, ”That’s the equivalent of an ‘F’ and a ‘D’.”
After all, what’s more important to a police department? Quality, qualified, competent officers on the job protecting the citizens of Dayton, or multicultural diversity? Apparently, the answer is multicultual diversity regardless of the consequences.
As Dayton Fraternal Order of Police President, Randy Beane, commented, “It becomes a safety issue for the people of our community. It becomes a safety issue to have an incompetent officer next to you in a life and death situation.” While not calling for higher standards, Dayton NAACP President Derrick Foward kind of concurred by saying, “The NAACP does not support individuals failing a test and then having the opportunity to be gainfully employed. If you lower the score for any group of people, you’re not getting the best qualified people for the job:” http://tiny.cc/6q8ty
Yet, that is precisely what’s happening in Dayton. Chalk up another win for diversity over equity and common sense. Even more foreboding is that scores for the upcoming Dayton Firefighter exam will be dumbed down for the same reason.
Not to worry though. Criminals and arsonists are put on notice not to take advantage of the situation!
Meanwhile, across the pond, a different scandal is a-brewing, this one involving multiculturalism as well but on the telly not with bobbies or firemen . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=3885.)
eric holder is a smart man.he knows that test scores means nothing but integrity is everything in being a competent police officer you people would not know anything about integrity your history proves that.
to(marsh626) you need to stop with your lies. you only need to look at george w bush and that in itself proves you are a liar. oh by the way, there are plenty george w bush in america. stop with your lies!
TO. (MARSH626) YOU MUST HAVE A IQ OF 5 IF YOU THINK ALL WHITES HAVE IQ’S of 105 you are the only idiot in the world who thinks that.you have plenty of blacks who are smarter then some whites you have plenty whites who are smarter then some blacks
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