Dr. Thomas Sowell had often written about studies that have shown that Blacks admitted to competitive colleges, because of affirmative action, often flunk out because they can’t keep up with the competition. They would have been much better served if they had gone to a second-tier college, where they could have graduated. A recent book, entitled “Mismatch” also addresses this subject. So the answer is “Yes”, there have been studies done on this subject that show that Blacks (and Latinos) are often HURT by affirmative action in college admissions policies.
That’s right; when you take a black high school graduate qualified for a community college and insert him/her in a state school, and take one qualified for the state school and insert him/her into an Ivy League school, they are destined to fail - they are starting off with a huge handicap.
One of the problems with recruiting black cops is that as more and more departments require college degrees, few blacks that can genuinely earn one would want to work dealing with human garbage as many cops do. Here in NJ Hispanics have been unofficially dropped from the list of potential affirmative action hires as cops because there are plenty of them and they don’t need AA to get the jobs. Now only blacks and females are given the jobs “for free”...