Posted on 02/09/2006 5:24:12 AM PST by GOPgirl_VA
A U.S. Justice Department investigation into hiring practices at the Virginia Beach Police Department has concluded that a math exam given to recruits discriminates against blacks and Hispanics.
The math test is one of a handful of separately times and scored components of the National Police Officer Selection Test used to screen and select entry-level officers. The investigation found that between 2002 and 2005, about 85 percent of white applicants passed the math test, while 66 percent of Hispanic applicants and 59 percent of blacks passed.
Virginia Beach demands that applicants score at least 70 percent to pass, which adversely affects blacks and Hispanics, the justice department said in a letter to the city.
"The evidence establishes that Virginia Beach is engaged in a pattern or practice of discrimination against African Americans and Hispanics on the basis of their race and national origin with respect to entry-level police officer positions in its Police Department..." the justice department wrote.
The DOJ told the city it can enter into a consent decree by taking appropriate measures to end the discrimination and providing "sufficient remedial relief" to the applicants who suffered the discrimination.
The city has until March 7 to make the corrective measures or the DOJ will file a complaint, it warned in the letter signed by David J. Palmer, chief of the employment litigation section for the department.
In a statement released Wednesday afternoon, the city said it didn't agree that any discrimination had occurred, but that it would work with the DOJ to examine the math test.
(Excerpt) Read more at wavy.com ...
"How insane can this possible get?"
I think the worm has turned. What helps is that we have come so far to eliminate discrimination. The result is a quickly growing black middle class. Blacks who work hard, play by the rules, make self sacrifices, and achieve will not tolerate the useless morons still begging for hand outs. They aint gonna let the pieces of schmidt ruin what they have toiled to obtain.
I will bet that there is more (probably silent) outrage over this in the black community than there is in the white.
OR!
Ho-dee-doh, ho-dee-doh, ho-dee-doh
Mike Tyson and his 2 security guards running for an elevator.
And therein lies the real problem. If we refuse to discuss and identify any contributing factor in low scores, we can never apply possible learning solutions to those in need.
In my leftist indoctrination class (I mean ethnic studies), it was made clear that anyone who studies differences in IQ scores will be labeled a racist.
Politically incorrect to say that, but true.
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" Calypso Louie's Million Man Math course explains this discrimination."
My kid did his Black History month project on Louie and went into great detail about being beamed into the mother wheel and given the vision Colin Powell leading a war against the black people.
He even gets to read it out loud in class!
Not for government jobs
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LOL! Well...yeah...
Penumbra? Thin air? Their butts?
'disparate impact' bttt
Yes, I heard about this! And the worse part (or the best, depending on your point of view) was that when all the dust settled white males had won most of these "anonymous" auditions!
Darn, you beat me to it....
If a taco leaves Chicago heading east at 55mph, and a crackpipe departs Cleveland going west at 150mph...
just kidding
First thou pullest the Holy Pin. Then thou must count to three. Three shall be the number of the counting and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither shalt thou count two, excepting that thou then proceedeth to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the number of the counting, be reached, then lobbest thou the Holy Hand Grenade in the direction of thine foe, who, being naughty in my sight, shall snuff it.
"The Bell Curve" by Charles Murray.
Asians do much better than whites as a whole. (which of course means they do a whole lot better than blacks. Dunno where Tiger Woods would fall, since he is "Cablasian")
Hard read with a lot of statistics.
That's the inate problem with math. It automatically discriminates against people of color. Everyone knows that blacks lack the math gene. /sarcasm
Here's a quote from the VBPD's chief,
This is not a test we developed, Jacocks said. We are not looking for rocket scientists. This is a basic math aptitude test.
Here's a sample question.
One sample question framed a problem in the context of police work: On Tuesday, Officer Jones worked the 3 p.m. to 11 p.m. shift. At 10:55 p.m. he was called to the scene of an accident where he remained until 1:30 a.m. How long past his regular shift did Officer Jones work?
Fwiw, Chief Jaycocks is in the Navy Reserve. My wife served in the same unit. He's a good guy. This lawsuit is BS.
2 + 2 = 4, no matter what your skin color or language.
So was I.
Probably Maybe in what the pc ninnies would label 'mean spirited', but this "Racist Test" nonsense deserves to be mocked.
It's not OUR (whites) fault that Blacks embrace the 'gangsta' lifestyle, or are "street smart", yet have an IQ of 32. Or that the stereotype for young Hispanics is that of a gang banger and illegal. Heck, look at the Jail Wars currently in CA, it's Blacks against Browns - period.
The bottom line is that Mathematics and tests in general are race neutral.
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