to help Barack Hussein Obama
destroy America from within
All according to plan
Joe Biden is an excellent example of what happens when people vote Democrat
All according to plan.
Posted on 06/04/2025 6:40:14 AM PDT by MtnClimber
The Trump administration has taken steps to free police and fire departments from the Biden administration’s onerous consent decrees.
The Trump administration has dropped the Biden administration’s push for onerous consent decrees on police and fire departments. These legal settlements micromanaged police operations and mandated DEI-based hiring and promotion practices.
“These radical requirements seem disconnected from how police departments actually work,” said Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon on Friday. “They tie officers’ hands and make communities less safe.”
The proposed consent decrees required departments to change how they tested prospective hires, increasing the share of black and female candidates hired.
Dhillon also warned that consent decrees drain resources, saying, “Once a judge imposes a consent decree, cities typically spend $10 million or more each year to comply with endless legal demands.”
Such money could instead go toward actually policing our streets.
Data on DEI
DEI practices have been pushed on police departments by Democrat presidents for decades, and economists have studied how such decrees impact the effectiveness of police forces, particularly when they change or eliminate testing standards to reshape the racial or gender makeup of departments.
There can, however, be advantages to hiring minority officers. In many cases, residents of minority communities are more likely to cooperate with officers who share their background. Minority officers can also serve undercover more effectively.
Consent decrees increase minority hiring by eliminating or reducing intelligence test standards. Since all new hires take these tests, the practice risks lowering the quality of new hires across the racial spectrum. Such recruiting has led to increased crime rates, and the largest increases have occurred in more heavily minority areas.
The effect is quite significant. On average, cities that had consent decrees for hiring imposed on them saw their violent and property crime rates falling relative to other cities before the consent decrees and rising relative to other cities afterward. The average yearly decline relative to other cities before the consent decree was -5.3 percent for violent crime, and the average yearly increase afterward was 4.8 percent.
Police departments that hired more black officers after changing their hiring rules also tended to lower their hiring standards the most. A 1 percent increase in the share of black officers correlated with a 4 percent rise in property crime and an almost 5 percent increase in violent crime. These crime spikes hit hardest in areas with the largest black population.
Affirmative Action for Women
In contrast to race-oriented affirmative action, which lowers standards for everyone, affirmative action for women sets lower strength, speed, and size standards that apply only to female applicants. Last year, as Los Angeles battled its worst fires in history, the fire department’s highly paid diversity head faced backlash when asked if she was strong enough to carry someone’s husband out of a fire. Her response: “He got himself in the wrong place if I have to carry him out of a fire.”
For police, changing strength standards has some offsetting effects. Hiring more women for male-designated positions reduces the number of available slots for men, so lowering physical standards for women results in more competition for the remaining slots for men and thus tends to result in men meeting stricter standards.
Affirmative action for women does not significantly affect crime rates. The change in the quality of male recruits helps offset the lower requirements for women.
Technology and new operating procedures can offset some differences between men and women. Cars can replace foot and bicycle patrols. Two-officer units can replace single-officer units, but that shift reduces the area law enforcement can cover. Eliminating foot patrols also weakens local connections, as officers spend less time building relationships with the communities they serve.
My research suggests that increasing the number of black male cops slightly reduces police shootings of civilians. But more female officers increased shootings of civilians.
Why? Criminals are more likely to assault officers whom they think they can overpower. Every 1 percent increase in the share of women on a police force is associated with a 15 to 19 percent increase in the number of assaults on police....SNIP
Leftists destroy everything they touch.
They’re pure wickedness walking.
Well, duh...but all of that evidence still won’t convince the commies.
That is true where ever DEI is applied. Amazon completed a study on hiring the best employees and couldn’t use it because it “discriminated” against women. You can force DEI on all US firms so you are not at a competitive disadvantage.
However, US firms have to compete against the world. Any country that rejects DEI, like China, is going to have a competitive advantage over DEI countries in productivity, efficiency, flexibility, research, etc. This advantage will exist throughout all levels of the economy.
(actually, it was this year in January).
There was also a DEI hire that was (is) the head of the department of water and power - barely speaks English and "earns" over $750k/year.
SHE is the one that allowed the reservoirs (two of them) that were built specifically to battle area wildfires to remain empty for 18 months or longer - meaning the fire hydrants were dry as the fires raged.
Not fired. Not reprimanded. Able to keep her lucrative DEI job. But then LA is infected top to bottom with unqualified DEI personnel, including the hapless DEI mayor.
Female cops should be banned from "walking the beat". That's common sense. But we don't have that anymore.
Can we just say the Biden regime (whoever was running it) was an unmitigated disaster that was antithetical to American values?
Dei actually kills, maims and harms people. Sows hatred and division. Incredibly harmful.
Bad forest policy does too.
So does homo promo and porn.
Recreational drug abuse and its promotion.
Bad government kills and hurts people.
Affirmative action DEI quota count all tools of the democrat party to cripple progress their belief is to make everyone dependent on government aka socialism the first step to communism.
Control = power = Goal Met
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.