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Memphis cops charged in Tyre Nichols murder hired after PD relaxed job requirements
NY Post ^ | 1.28.23 | Matthew Sedacca

Posted on 01/28/2023 8:30:23 PM PST by conservative98

At least two out of of five Memphis police officers charged with murder in the fatal beatdown of Tyre Nichols joined the force after the department relaxed its hiring requirements.

Tadarrius Bean and Demetrius Haley both joined the Memphis Police Department in Aug. 2020, NBC News reported, more than two years after the department dramatically loosened the education qualifications to become an officer.

Recruits no longer needed an associate’s degree or 54 college credit hours to join the force, and could get by with five years of work experience, Action 5 reported.

Loosening the required qualifications however means that the department is ultimately getting “less desirable” job candidates, Mike Alcazar, an adjunct professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and a retired NYPD detective, told The Post..

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


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Tennessee
KEYWORDS: biden; defundthepolice; donutwatch; marxism; obama; police; standards; tennessee; tyrenichols
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To: conservative98

“Loosening the required qualifications however means that the department is ultimately getting “less desirable” job candidates, Mike Alcazar, an adjunct professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and a retired NYPD detective, told The Post..”

That there professor is pure genius. Who else could have figured that out?


41 posted on 01/29/2023 8:30:04 AM PST by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how thery control you. )
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To: EEGator

Certainly better under Rizzo rule!


42 posted on 01/29/2023 8:31:16 AM PST by Reily
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To: Reily

Exactly my point.


43 posted on 01/29/2023 8:34:05 AM PST by EEGator
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To: Paladin2
A race to the bottom”

Heh, Heh, Heh, He said “race”...

Heh, heh heh, I said “bottom”

44 posted on 01/29/2023 9:54:23 AM PST by thegagline (Sic semper tyrannis! Goldwater 2024)
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To: lightman; Paladin2

There are plenty of Greeks and other Orthodox Christians named Dimitris, Dimitri, etc.

Others need to bestow that name with honor (and wth Baptism), and not take it so lightly!!!!


45 posted on 01/29/2023 10:43:49 AM PST by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: conservative98

Been saying this for years. Many cops are no better than street thugs.


46 posted on 01/29/2023 10:50:46 PM PST by packrat35 (Pureblood! No clot shot for me!)
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