No problemo. Just get a copy of New Orlean's exam.
Looks like they have to lower their standards to meet some artificial standard. At least they've apparently held the line so far. Fat, weak, illiterate cops who have a checkered past are not exactly what one wants on the force.
New Jersey should fill a selected quota of the State Police with blacks, hispanics, and women by some kind of lottery system. Select a quota, then start pulling names out of a hat until the number is reached. Who cares? Then, test the white men and fill the remainder of the roll with qualified officers.
Finally, assign the white officers to predominantly white areas and the minority officers to predominantly minority areas. Case closed, issue resolved!
I truly don't understand how a test can descriminate. I can understand how the school systems these minorities are coming from can do a bad job of teaching though.
Back in the 70s, I was part of the dumbing down process that affected the fire service in Massachusetts. After changing the test several times to make it more "relevant"; the passing grade was dropped to 30 to accomodate the court mandate.
How incredibly sad it is that admission standards and test
results have to be changed, instead of the APPLICANT changing.
Richard
Asians are no longer Asian according to the USMC, and probably the other Armed Forces.
they're white. too many standardized tests getting screwed up when they were considered minorities.
This doesn't seem hard for me to figure out.
You fix it by fixing the social problems that are responsible for the higher crime rate and the lower school performances of hispanics and blacks and you admit that all women are not the physical equal of all men, of course that would be admitting that the liberal way of thinking sucks and they are wrong about many things and this thinking is directly responsible for these so called "problems". We couldn't have that, so naturally they will lower the standards and make sure NJ gets a sub standard police force.
I once applied to the Orange Co. Sheriff's Dept. about 17 or so years ago (after having worked 12 years for the L.A. Co. Sheriff's Dept.- I applied to appease a woman didn't really want the job).
After passing the written test, I was scheduled to take the physical agility test. I passed but at the end of the test, one of the people in charge commented "well you passed, but the times weren't all that great".
I commented back, that well, most of these turkeys are young studs still in the military, while I am an old fart. I'm also working on a broken foot that was diagnosed last week as being worse than when first broken 3 months ago, and my hand (removing a glove) was put back together by a plastic surgeon less than a month ago.
He said you must really want this job, and I said no, it would be a serious cut in pay for me, but I made a promise I'd apply and do my best. She didn't last either. The point of this is that Law enforcement EVERYWHERE has lowered their standards to recruit minorities. If an (old fart) like I was could pass, almost anyone could.
Those kinds of statements are so insulting.
Btw, an example of a truly effective cop, imho, would be one of the Septa subway cops I remember in Philly. He was about 6'9" tall, black, and built like a brick wall. His presence alone was enough to keep order.
They should do away with the quotas and just hire qualified people.
Ah the old "must look like the state/people they will represent" canard. Presumably they need black officers to deal with black citizens, Chinese officers to deal with Chinese citizens, etc. It is in fact a perfect and clear statement of pure racism.
Ho! Ho! I'll just bet it did. Heck, they know why, and they know it would be political suicide to even hint at the reason.
I've seen this type of political correctness in the Border Patrol. The result has been an epidemic of corruption and incompetence. I hope the citizens of these precincts have plenty of Vaseline.
There is ebonic math?
I don't know anything about this PD specifically but I would assume that they dumbed down "problematic" aspects of the admissions back in the 70's or 80's and that this article is referring to a problem on top of that.