Fire Hires Mired

The Washington Times ^ | 3/17/11 | The Washington Times

[MadisonReagan]

Public safety is non-negotiable. That’s the message signaled Tuesday by lawyers defending the Big Apple's fire department from race-based bullying by the U.S. Justice Department.

Justice is trying to make the Fire Department of New York (FDNY) hire more minorities even though FDNY has taken extraordinary steps to recruit in black and Hispanic communities. The Obama administration, still unsatisfied, ramped up the pressure by demanding admissions quotas for interim hires and extremely low standards on fire-academy entrance exams.....

City attorneys haven’t rolled over. In Tuesday’s answer to the administration’s proposed schedule, they sent notice that the order setting such low standards is off base.

[MadisonReagan]

This is hot enough to burn on a pyre. "Fire hires mired" indeed. Put this together with the Dayton police situation and you see the Obama DoJ on a destructive mission nationwide to put racial bean-counting above public safety.

[Verginius Rufus]

These policies cost lives if incompetent people are put on the job.

Of course this has been going on for a long time. Apparently Chief Moose was hired because of political pressure from the Clinton White House, or Hillary in particular, and his incompetence meant that more people were killed before the killers were caught (he insisted on trying to catch some white guys even though the messages he was getting from the killers had some peculiar phrases used only by a black group).

[B4Ranch]

Even Dayton NAACP President Derrick Foward objected. “The NAACP does not support individuals failing a test and then having the opportunity to be gainfully employed,” he said. “If you lower the score for any group of people, you’re not getting the best qualified people for the job.”