hawk44???
Posted on 05/06/2005 9:28:58 AM PDT by Abathar
The LAPD was once known as "the world's greatest police department," due largely to its stringent character screening. Back in the era of Sergeant Joe Friday, LAPD candidates were checked out as thoroughly as homicide suspects. Even a casual relationship with any known criminal excluded a candidate from being considered as a police officer.
All that is now history. In a bid to appease racial activists and meet federal decrees, strict screening and testing measures were dismantled. New black and Hispanic officer candidates were hustled into the ranks at any cost. What former deputy chief Steve Downing called "a quagmire of quota systems" was set up, and "standards were lowered and merit took a back seat to the new political imperatives."
It was back in 1981 that the LAPD first entered into a federal consent decree that instituted quotas for female and minority hiring. To meet these demands, the standards for physical capability, intellectual capacity, and personal character were lowered. The result was that many incapable or mediocre recruits--even significant numbers with criminal links or gang associations--were accepted into the department.
L.A. is not the only city that damaged its police force in a headlong rush for "diversity." During the 1990s, Washington, D.C. had to fire or indict 250 cops after a similar lowering of standards, and New Orleans indicted more than 100 crooked or inept cops who had been hired--it was later found--due to "political pressures." Miami had a similar scandal after scores of cops hastily recruited in response to race riots and an immigration surge got involved in robbing cocaine dealers and reselling their drugs. "We didn't get the quality of officers we should have," acknowledged department spokesman Dave Magnusson.
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I agree with you. Bias stinks.
hawk44???
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indeed. like unto a well-used port-o-let does it stink.
4 Handicap here! Can't seem to play enough golf. Going on my yearly trek to Sedona, AZ for 5 days of golf heaven the 1st week in June. If you haven't been, you must try it sometime.
Point noted (after I looked up all the big words :-). I'll keep an eye out. And now back to bed with the owrk ... just kidding!
"One could also look into the current influence of methamphetamine networks on such small forces."
Very true, but most Americans are unaware of this.
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There seems to be a building wave of black-bashing -some oblique, some direct- going on here on FR. How long shall this be permitted to continue? "
I hadn't noticed this myself, but I trust you well enough to keep an eye open for it in the future.
Sounds like whats been imposed on the school systems in the country.
Any pointing out of this by me will be viewed as purely self-serving.
then freepmail an alert to me, ok?
this venomous CRAP needs to be stopped cold.
Don't I wish! The only success I have is when I'm on a scramble team. Where others have to use 4-irons to reach the green, I always get it where my team has to use a 5 or 7, maybe a 9. That helps greatly. Just don't ask me to hit that iron shot. I hit a 5-iron once where I lost yardage on the stroke.
Seriously! I'm not joking.
1. a sure sign that my wrath has gained ascendancy is a certain cold formality to my style, the use of mildly obsolescent polysyllabic terms and structures, and a clear impression of staccato expletives inhabiting the voids between the printed words.
2. LOVE the tagline
3. "owrk"?
I've been keeping an eye out.
Seen it, and noted it, been wondering about it.
And our nasty pic posting friend as well, he's just an extreme example of it.
But it has been going on.
I will, as well, be keeping my eyes open further.
well, the few times I have indulged in the frivolous passtime, I needed to shout "SIDE!" rather than "FORE!"
not kidding.
truth is never selfserving...
Well, that should scare the living heck out of all those keyboard racists! I mean we can't have Free Republc be representative of the of the feelings of the country we live in, now can we.
Let's make everyone on Free Republic run around with a 20 pound chip on their shoulders.
I saw much truth in those articles. As far as Rodney King goes, he is a dreg of society.
Sue me!
I hit a telephone pole mounted transformer and took out power over a small area.
Golf is not my game.
for now, please keep your eyes open.
If you note a glaring example (or a questionable one):
please record its exact URL,
post#,
poster's UserID,
the UserID of the one to whom it is posted,
the full and unedited content of the post
keep a file of these records on your own personal computers.
periodically, we shall have to do a round-robin of file-sharing for comparison and investigation.
I would advocate a strict policy of non-engagement for all such posts save the most unquestionably villainous.
rows and flamewars will not get the job done.
keeping records, establishing patterns, letting them hang themselves through such patterns... this, I think, is the game for now.
Agreed.
I'm tired of those I know and care about being hounded by our nasty pic friend.
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