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Minority police advocates call for end of BPD tests, not ‘defunding’
Boston Herald ^ | June 9, 2020 | Andrew Martinez

Posted on 06/10/2020 6:23:36 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement

City Councilor Andrea Campbell and minority police officer advocates are calling for an end to internal BPD tests they say are discriminatory, while discouraging calls of “defunding” police.

The call for change comes as minority officers struggle for internal reforms.

(Excerpt) Read more at bostonherald.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Local News
KEYWORDS: boston; massachusetts; minorities; police; tests
Tests are racist. "(From 2015) A federal judge yesterday ruled that nine black Boston police sergeants were passed over for promotions because the multiple-choice test they took discriminated against minorities."

Why have spelling bees in school? Could be racist.

How about a driver's test? STOP sign and YIELD sign? Could be confusing.

1 posted on 06/10/2020 6:23:36 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement
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To: ConservativeStatement

It seems like leftists and blacks want to return to segregation more than anyone else.


2 posted on 06/10/2020 6:24:27 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: ConservativeStatement

F That

What they really want is quotas no matter qualified or not.


3 posted on 06/10/2020 6:27:43 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
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To: Altura Ct.
What they really want is quotas no matter qualified or not.

Yes, but when it comes to positions of authority or overpayment, they want LOW quotas for whites and Asians, and guaranteed over-representation for themselves.

4 posted on 06/10/2020 6:29:30 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: ConservativeStatement

I saw on Tucker’s Show that a high up person at UCLA decreed that Blacks would not be able to skip their tests. That ALL students must take their tests.....and he was promptly ghosted.


5 posted on 06/10/2020 6:29:57 AM PDT by originalbuckeye ('In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act'- George Orwell..?)
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To: originalbuckeye

“All lives matter...” is insensitive and even racist from what the ghouls have stated.


6 posted on 06/10/2020 6:32:11 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement (We are NOT all in this together.)
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To: ConservativeStatement

minority officers are consistently fighting for internal reform.


And what exactly are those reforms.

This issue in the article is a drug test they want to eliminate because it is racist.

The decision for promotion should be the color of skin? That is what they want.

They frame it that they are being discriminated because of the color of skin, yet that is the very thing they are asking for.


7 posted on 06/10/2020 6:32:58 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: ConservativeStatement

BLM = White Lives Don’t Matter


8 posted on 06/10/2020 6:35:24 AM PDT by Thommas
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To: ConservativeStatement

What about drug testing?


9 posted on 06/10/2020 6:47:37 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: ConservativeStatement

Yeah, more coked up cops in management seems like a good idea.


10 posted on 06/10/2020 6:50:24 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: ConservativeStatement

Reduced hiring standards are a major problem in metropolitan police departments.


11 posted on 06/10/2020 7:06:29 AM PDT by absalom01 (You should do your duty in all things. You cannot do more, and you should never wish to do less.)
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To: PGR88

That is what it is looking like! I wish the quiet black community would start speaking out, but I know they won’t because they are afraid.


12 posted on 06/10/2020 7:12:36 AM PDT by LoveMyFreedom
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1.Hire only black police.
2. Lower training & testing standards.
Yep. That’ll fix it.


13 posted on 06/10/2020 7:28:46 AM PDT by mumblypeg
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To: ConservativeStatement

I hate it when someone uses a non-common TLA (Three Letter Acronym) and doesn’t define it.


14 posted on 06/10/2020 7:29:10 AM PDT by libertylover (Socialism will always look good to those who think they can get something for nothing.)
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To: libertylover

Same here — define it or shut up. DIOSU


15 posted on 06/10/2020 7:36:50 AM PDT by George from New England
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To: originalbuckeye

The best part?

That person who got ‘ghosted’ is an Accounting professor.

Do you want your company bookkeeping done by a person who got to skip their tests???? OR who was given a higher grade than they deserved???


16 posted on 06/10/2020 8:03:16 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: libertylover

Columbus statue beheaded in Boston today.

This is the early stages of a revolution


17 posted on 06/10/2020 8:12:44 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement (We are NOT all in this together.)
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To: ridesthemiles

Thanks. I get riled up and cannot remember the specifics.


18 posted on 06/10/2020 8:16:31 AM PDT by originalbuckeye ('In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act'- George Orwell..?)
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To: ConservativeStatement

In 1986 I took the civil service test to be a police officer. I took the test while on active duty in the Navy. The academy class was going to start 6 weeks after my end of service. I had a perfect plan. I was number 2 on the list with absolutely no background problems so I knew I would be hired. Right when I separated a lawsuit was filed that the test was discriminatory. The academy class was canceled until resolution of the lawsuit. I ended up with the sheriff’s dept. and subsequently went back into the Navy. The test was a basic intelligence test, and you were given a booklet which you were supposed to study and memorize. I don’t know what was supposed to be discriminatory about it.


19 posted on 06/10/2020 8:41:38 AM PDT by suthener
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To: Pearls Before Swine

Considering they are only 13% of the population, how much of the federal government employees are AA?
Here let me take a stab at it, 38% YMMV


20 posted on 06/10/2020 6:24:39 PM PDT by Keyhopper (Indians had bad immigration laws)
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