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Ferguson leaders pledge to change police: Seek greater number of black applicants to police academy
The Salt Lake City Tribune / The Associated Press ^
| August 19, 2014
| Nigel Duara
Posted on 08/19/2014 9:07:05 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: mass55th
Over my years as a police officer I witness the downgrading of standards to accommodate minorities. The standards I had to meet to get on the force were extremely stringent (whether minority or not). When I retired, if you had pulse and were a minority, you got a badge.
To make this happen the Police Academy standers keep getting lower and lower.
And we wonder why the police of today are not the police we remember.
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posted on
08/19/2014 9:35:53 PM PDT
by
doc1019
To: Ouchthatonehurt
Yes, I suspect they already are. I was telling my wife today that if I were looking for a home in the St. Louis area, I would not buy one in Ferguson. It doesn’t matter what value they are assessed at. You could not give me a house there now.
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Smart move regardless of where it comes from.
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posted on
08/19/2014 9:39:37 PM PDT
by
DannyTN
(I)
To: doc1019
"Over my years as a police officer I witness the downgrading of standards to accommodate minorities." The same thing happened in teaching.
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posted on
08/19/2014 9:39:38 PM PDT
by
blam
(Jeff Sessions For President)
To: jjsheridan5
Getting blacks on the police force, is a small step to addressing black culture. You’re creating black role models of the good kind.
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posted on
08/19/2014 9:44:25 PM PDT
by
DannyTN
(I)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
A tacit admission that the problem is racist white cops.
To: 2ndDivisionVet
This appears to be a pretty major case, though, like a town that’s 65% black having a police department only 6% black. It just seems logical that, people-to-people, more black officers couldn’t hurt. Not for some sort of quota, but if only for community relations.
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posted on
08/19/2014 9:48:35 PM PDT
by
JennysCool
(My hypocrisy goes only so far)
To: blam
Yeah, I had a few “quota’s” as teachers and they were horrible. Had at least one good black teacher though.
But there are ways to do this. And lowering the standards and quotas are not the right ways. Incentives/scholarships to get better applicants into the academy, so that you don’t have to lower standards is the right way to fix this problem.
And the incentives shouldn’t be a forever thing, just until the racial disparity is corrected.
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posted on
08/19/2014 9:48:45 PM PDT
by
DannyTN
(I)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Hey! Rachel Jeantel has her diploma now and shes supposedly multilingual!Yeah, all that and she's still functionally illiterate.
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posted on
08/19/2014 9:49:22 PM PDT
by
Bullish
(You ever notice that liberalism really just amounts to anti-morality?)
To: Bullish
Well, we can’t promote her to lieutenant right away, maybe wait a month or three.
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posted on
08/19/2014 9:50:30 PM PDT
by
2ndDivisionVet
(The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.)
To: jospehm20
True.
But I actually can’t believe some of the prices mansions are going for just north of Forrest Park. These are amazing turn of the century classics going for a million or less. Guess the neighborhood isn’t what it used to be, but all the same, Forrest Park and the gallery are still awesome. Delmare Ave. nearby...not so much.
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posted on
08/19/2014 9:51:45 PM PDT
by
Ouchthatonehurt
("When you're going through hell, keep going." - Sir Winston Churchillcide)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Well, we cant promote her to lieutenant right away That's retarded, sir!
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posted on
08/19/2014 9:52:05 PM PDT
by
JennysCool
(My hypocrisy goes only so far)
To: blam; doc1019
The same thing happened in teaching. In medicine also. Blacks who fail a year in med school often get to repeat. Everyone else is shown the door.
And this hurts blacks most of all! Quality black MD's become suspect, and those in med school get the message: no need to do your best. If you fail, there will be do-overs.
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posted on
08/19/2014 9:53:38 PM PDT
by
Leaning Right
(Why am I holding this lantern? I am looking for the next Reagan.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet; Chode
I say good. A black cop would have done the same! Moral of this story never bring your fists to a gun fight.
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posted on
08/19/2014 9:57:29 PM PDT
by
Morgana
( Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
To: Bullish; 2ndDivisionVet
“Sir, you were jaywalking against the light and that’s retarted. Ah’m gonna have to right you a woof ticket.”
Officer “Tubeneck”
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posted on
08/19/2014 9:58:48 PM PDT
by
tumblindice
(America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
To: DannyTN
Getting blacks on the police force, is a small step to addressing black culture. Youre creating black role models of the good kind.
Not even enough to call it a drop in the bucket. Unfortunately, we are to some degree held hostage by the gatekeepers of culture -- entertainment, sports, education, and media. These groups are completely saturated by people who lack the capacity to understand the problem, or who actually support the decay spreading from our inner cities. Black cops would do nothing to counter this, in any meaningful way. It is a fly versus a herd of elephants.
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posted on
08/19/2014 9:58:57 PM PDT
by
jjsheridan5
(Remember Mississippi -- leave the GOP plantation)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Affirmative Action cops! Cool!
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posted on
08/19/2014 10:01:01 PM PDT
by
FlingWingFlyer
(America is not a refugee camp! It's my home!)
To: jjsheridan5
I think the biggest spread of decay in the inner cities is that we lowered the import tariffs and off-shored the jobs. No jobs equal decay. Ferguson has > 25% unemployment. Idle hands are the devil’s workshop.
Put them back to work, and the demand for thug entertainment will drop.
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posted on
08/19/2014 10:02:11 PM PDT
by
DannyTN
(I)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
They will be lowering the standards very shortly.
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posted on
08/19/2014 10:07:20 PM PDT
by
Jack Hydrazine
(Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
To: tumblindice; Bullish; doc1019; JennysCool; FlingWingFlyer
I can seriously imagine her in the Ferguson police uniform. But then I used to watch Reno 911.
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posted on
08/19/2014 10:07:28 PM PDT
by
2ndDivisionVet
(The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.)
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