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To: qaz123

Do candidates have to pass a psych eval? If so and the guy passed, then those memes are not a prob. And I found the hippy one a hoot.

Note to the department: Good luck finding decent applicants after this.

And note to the the law abiding there: Good luck, folks. Yer gonna need it.


3 posted on 09/16/2019 4:35:44 AM PDT by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds)
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To: mewzilla

I found the “hippy” one lifetime-disqualifying for any position in law enforcement.


5 posted on 09/16/2019 4:40:14 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: mewzilla

Just one more vector on the “Axis of Evil”. The police can’t recruit people now. It ain’t gonna get better. Wait until they start sending the police out to grab the Red Flagged guns. There basically won’t BE police out there any longer. Take a country with a decimated, demoralized police force, throw in 30 million uneducated illegal aliens with a tendency to violence and a Brown SHirt Media that screams “Racist” at any perceived insult and “conservative” politicians that rush to do their bidding with every opportunity and you have one hell of a recipe for violent chaos which a small group of people seem willing to spend $Billions to achieve.


12 posted on 09/16/2019 4:46:45 AM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: mewzilla; McGavin999

The two of you have touched on something, that I don’t think many pay attention to. There are shortages for cops, firemen and emt’s all over the country. Recently, in St Louis the DA said the cops didn’t have to shoot the drug dealer they were trying to arrest, who was armed with a loaded revolver. Who the hell would want to be a cop there? Look at what happened in Baltimore, after Freddie Gray. Mayor sides with the community, throws cops under the bus, cops leave or don’t do their jobs, city descends into chaos.

Soon there will be private police forces in the wealthy areas. Everyone else will be left to fend for themselves.


36 posted on 09/16/2019 6:25:20 AM PDT by qaz123
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To: mewzilla
Do candidates have to pass a psych eval? If so and the guy passed, then those memes are not a prob. And I found the hippy one a hoot.

Usually they get a psych eval. Failing a psych eval is supposed to prevent one from becoming a cop.

But...

Dr. Clarissa Cole on After Hours AM April 17, 2019

(Start at 78:31)

Dr. Cole: He had an epiphany; he was going to become a cop!

Eric Olsen: Ha ha ha what??? Uh, so, wait a minute, he was told by a former employer, if you ever, you better never get a job where you have influence over others, an authority position, or I’ll do whatever it takes to stop you. So wouldn’t becoming a cop kinda give him the ultimate authority over people?

Dr. Cole: Well, you know, lucky for all these other people, he kept moving from county to county so they weren’t really, uh, yeah, it is the ultimate authority he was just moving around so people wouldn’t know what he was doing, and I think getting out of the teaching profession they didn’t know what he was going to do.

He eventually applied to the Broward County Police Unit; he was rejected, though, because he failed the psychological test.

Eric Olsen: Oh that’s it he’s out of the career. No career for him He’s obviously unstable…

Dr. Cole: One, you know what? One would think so, and I actually used to perform these psych tests, and oh, do I have stories! You would think that it would even, it’s supposed to, let me tell you how it’s supposed to work, it’s supposed to prevent you from getting a job as a police officer or a prison guard.

Eric Olsen: Sure.

Dr. Cole: Does that always occur?

Eric Olsen: I would hope that it does.

Dr. Cole: No, no, no, I would say 50% of the time.

Eric Olsen: What?

Dr. Cole: It’s supposed to be a be a requirement, a REQUIREMENT, if you don’t pass, if you are not psychologically fit, you are not supposed to become a police officer or a prison guard. Does that actually preclude you from becoming a police officer even as long ago as what, 2005? No, I was doing them in 2005. Half of the people I rejected still became a cop.

Eric Olsen: How does that happen? How do they get around this?

Dr. Cole: Oh God there so many ways

Eric Olsen: Is it a buddy, a dad?

Dr. Cole: My son, he’s the son of my buddy, his dad a cop, he has to be a cop, he’s going to work in this county and we’re really understaffed, we need people, we know he failed, but it’s OK. The amount of excuses I heard to employ people.

And that’s the thing, just so the general public is aware, it’s difficult to fail, it’s difficult to fail one of these psychological…

Eric Olsen: What would cause one…

Dr. Cole: It’s not like the bar is so darned high that no one could pass, it’s nothing LIKE that, this test is just to find out is this person basically psychologically stable, are they non-sadistic, do they not have criminal or punishing tendencies or narcissistic tendencies themselves. Basically you’re trying to weed out anybody that has a like God complex; I’m judge, jury, and executioner. You want to get those people out of there. You’re trying to get people out of there that are just psychiatrically so unstable that they can’t control their emotions so, maybe some sort of bipolar thing going on or somebody that absolutely clearly has a personality disorder, like narcissistic personality disorder, antisocial personality disorder, borderline personality disorder. They are not

Eric Olsen: Checks and balances. Checks and balances to protect the general public from somebody that would not do well in that position.

Dr. Cole: And I was very, yeah, I was extremely, forgiving on these psychological tests even when somebody would sort of hit sort of some of those marks on the tests we would give, I would ask in interviews I would ask a ton of questions just to be very, very sure that this person was indeed failing the psychological exam, and I did not fail that many people, but the people I failed, please believe me that it was for extremely good reasons, extremely good reasons, and half of them became cops anyway.

Eric Olsen: So when they‘d leave would they go to a different state and do it?

Dr. Cole: Hah no, they would get hired by different a county, like a couple minutes over usually. Somebody knew them and “Now let’s pick them up.” “No, no, no, he has really strong sadistic tendencies and fantasies of rape and murder, you really shouldn’t hire him” and they would. And that’s exactly, I hope it’s different that was like I said, this was in 2005, it scared the heck out of me and I said I would never have a career doing that I don’t want to know that those people are becoming officers.

Eric Olsen: Tell me it’s in the minority, though, that this happens.

Dr. Cole: It’s in the minority that people fail, the majority of people passed. But those that do fail, like I said it’s for very good reason, but half of them. Half of them got picked up. So no, it’s not a minority a full 50% got hired.

Eric Olsen: That is truly a scary number out there that 50% of...

Dr. Cole: It’s a small sample, a small sample that was in a place that was economically depressed and needed officers…

(End at 83:29)


41 posted on 09/16/2019 7:22:57 AM PDT by null and void (<---powered by warm sunshine and gentle breezes and unicorn farts, don't forget the unicorn farts!)
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To: mewzilla

They do not want decent people, or decent applicants, My FRiend. They want people that will do as they are told[ordered].


43 posted on 09/16/2019 7:44:25 AM PDT by sport
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To: mewzilla
Note to the department: Good luck finding decent applicants after this.

That's exactly the point, that the Left is exploiting, discouraging good people from even getting in a position to oppose them.

55 posted on 09/16/2019 1:49:58 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: mewzilla
Note to the department: Good luck finding decent applicants after this.

This guy needs to go through the media postings of every other cop on the force, especially the higher ups, and complain about every single 'offensive' post any of them have ever made! Take half the department out!
59 posted on 09/18/2019 7:33:35 PM PDT by Svartalfiar
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