"Jobs for those what are of job age."
Posted on 01/06/2010 8:10:11 AM PST by Puppage
The Chicago Police Department is seriously considering scrapping the police entrance exam, sources tell Fran Spielman.
Dropping the exam would bolster minority hiring and avert legal battles, according to one source, while others confirm that the exam could be scrapped to open the process to as many people as possible.
However, the lack of an exam would make Chicago the lone major city without one, and experts contend that the exam is integral to eliminating unqualified applicants.
The CPD has tried in recent years to boost minority hiring by offering the police exam online and turning to minority clergy to help in the recruitment effort.
But those efforts have met with frustration. Despite seeing an increase in the number of minority applicants in 2006, the last year the exam was offered, the online component was never launched.
And as of last year, one in four patrol officers were African-American, but just one in 12 Lieutenants were of color.
Officials at City Hall have admitted that they have been exploring exam options since last fall, according to the Sun-Times.
The CPD is currently operating at 2,000 officers-a-day short of its authorized strength. Police hired only 46 officers this year, with plans to hire less than 100 next year -- and those hirings rely on federal funds.
What's more, City Hall has floated the idea of imposing cop furloughs to meet a tight budget.
I seem to recall a prominent black man wanting people to be judged by the content of their character. I guess if that takes work on someone's part, it's easier to cry racism.
Sounds like a repeat of history that led to the untouchables.
FMCDH(BITS)
Well, I guess all men are NOT created equal according to Chicago.
Is there not already enough corruption in Chicago without this?????
"Jobs for those what are of job age."
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Puppage — You are joking, right?
Character, what’s that? The new Democrat would think MLK was from outer space today.
Besides MLK was a conservative, every one knows that, except his family.
Great, Chicago should call Philly to see if those two polling booth thugs want to be on Hussein’s police force. They could be the poster boys for the department.
Chicago must be the most corrupt place on earth. Offering the exam online is simply an effort to allow them to cheat.
Fantastic! If you can’t meet the standards lower the standards.
lowering standards = dumb cops
dumb cops = evidence/witnesses can’t be located at trial.
no evidence/witness = crimnals walk
freed crimnals = a more dangerous city
see where this is heading?...all to satisfy the racial accounting standards of the Left.
Why go to the trouble of lowering them, when you can just get rid of them altogether?
I suppose they could just start accepting a certain percentage of applications randomly. They would get diversity; but every one of those randomly selected applicants would be carrying a gun on the street (of course, many of them are probably carrying already—so big difference) and would be walking into domestic disputes that are about to go violent and have to know how to defuse them.
Does Chicago have a racial classification system to ensure it is meeting its goals?
Need to toss the test. Black Panthers can’t read.
Well,they will at least be proficient with automatic weapons!
This has to be satire, right?
Sounds like the state of Flori-DUH's plan to increase minority teachers after too many couldn't pass the test for certification?
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