I agree, you are making a sound point. Anything goes should never be allowed for police recruitment.
Someone else on the forum noted that one of the New York police officers, involved in the controversial death of the heavy guy put in restraint, had full sleeve tattoos on both his arms and legs. I looked at the footage, and realized this was right - at his cuffs and socks, one could see it. He looked like a gang member wearing a police uniform.
“I agree, you are making a sound point. Anything goes should never be allowed for police recruitment.”
Yes, and the hot issue of minority recruitment is the third rail for anyone daring to question such lax hiring standards.
Slager has some complaint history:
“Documents released by the force show that one complaint in January 2015 involving failure to file a police report was sustained — though it was unclear what disciplinary action Slager faced, if any.
Slager was cleared of another complaint regarding use of force. In that case, a man alleged Slager had used his Taser for no reason and slammed him to the ground in September 2013. The officer was exonerated upon investigation, documents from the North Charleston Police Department show. “
Ann Coulter Letter
Would it kill you to hire more black cops? (Yes)
Ann Coulter | Wednesday Aug 27, 2014 4:06 PM
If the Ferguson police are forced to hire more minorities and women for the sake of diversity, the one thing we can be sure of is that more black people will be murdered, raped, and assaulted.
Someone’s got to say it, so it might as well be me: I’m against more black people being murdered, raped, and assaulted.
In a massive, detailed 2000 study of the effect of court-ordered affirmative action plans on police departments, economist John Lott found that the more minorities on a police force, the higher the rates of murder, manslaughter, violent crime, robbery, and aggravated assault will be. Violent crime increased by a minimum of 3.3 percent every year after affirmative action policies went into effect — and the spike in crime was highest in black neighborhoods.
Read at: http://humanevents.com/2014/08/27/would-it-kill-you-to-hire-more-black-cops-yes/