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Oakland councilwoman focuses on police exam to broaden diversity
San Francisco Chronicle ^
| October 17, 2015
| Rachel Swan
Posted on 10/17/2015 11:12:43 AM PDT by artichokegrower
An Oakland City Council member who wants the Police Department to hire more African American officers has focused her attention on the written exam for new applicants which is the point where many candidates get eliminated.
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To: artichokegrower
It is racist to require applicants meet the job requirements and be able to perform the duties of the job.
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posted on
10/17/2015 11:43:05 AM PDT
by
Iron Munro
(The wise have stores of choice food and oil but a foolish man devours all he has. Proverbs 21:20)
To: AEMILIUS PAULUS
Even more frightening is the Diverse Ones notoriously poor impulse control. Which has a way of spreading around by way of comparative excusing, too. Soft bigotry of lowered expectations.
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posted on
10/17/2015 11:43:59 AM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
To: artichokegrower
As it stands, many jurisdictions
impose an UPPER LIMIT on IQ for police officers, where people with an IQ over about 115 are rejected.
The official reason is that high-IQ people would become "bored" with police work. My suspicion is that chopping off the high-IQ part of the spectrum allows them to have an adequate number of black applicants in the selection pool, without too-obviously imposing quotas.
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posted on
10/17/2015 11:50:29 AM PDT
by
PapaBear3625
(Big government is attractive to those who think that THEY will be in control of it.)
To: PapaBear3625
When you have a job, chief among whose qualifications is apparently apathy, then I can see concern for boredom.
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posted on
10/17/2015 11:54:02 AM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
To: artichokegrower
...a Police Department thats reflective of the community they serve. Hire more felons!
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posted on
10/17/2015 12:03:57 PM PDT
by
Renkluaf
To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
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posted on
10/17/2015 12:16:37 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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posted on
10/17/2015 12:18:12 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
To: PapaBear3625
I’m surprised a white person would even apply for a job to work as a cop in Oakland.
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posted on
10/17/2015 12:24:17 PM PDT
by
ladyjane
To: HiTech RedNeck
When you have a job, chief among whose qualifications is apparently apathy, then I can see concern for boredom. Keep in mind that they will be picking their detectives and police executives from a pool of people whose IQ is limited to about 115.
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10/17/2015 12:33:15 PM PDT
by
PapaBear3625
(Big government is attractive to those who think that THEY will be in control of it.)
To: ladyjane
Oddly, I think there is at least one wealthy white neighborhood in Oakland.
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posted on
10/17/2015 12:33:41 PM PDT
by
jjotto
("Ya could look it up!")
To: DPMD
Diversity will always trump character, competency, training and qualifications. That's true. It has pretty much become routine. Employers can't legally say "No White Males Need Apply," so their practice is -- and they often advertise it -- that "Women and Minorities Are Encouraged to Apply."
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posted on
10/17/2015 12:36:03 PM PDT
by
ought-six
(Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
To: artichokegrower
“Meaning stupid people “
Yep——just dumbing it down.
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posted on
10/17/2015 12:37:07 PM PDT
by
Mears
To: artichokegrower
diversity has destroyed Oakland. the city is over run with AA’s that some how just fail to make the diversity work
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posted on
10/17/2015 12:39:06 PM PDT
by
bert
((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12, 73, ....carson is the kinder gentler trump)
To: jjotto
Actually you are right. There are some very wealthy sections of Oakland up in the hills. Also Piedmont is a city completely surrounded by Oakland. Two bedroom bungalows there cost more than a million. The kids all look like they could be in a Ralph Lauren ad.
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posted on
10/17/2015 12:42:44 PM PDT
by
ladyjane
To: ladyjane
Im surprised a white person would even apply for a job to work as a cop in Oakland. They don't, because there are no white people in Oakland. So the message is that the written test itself is racist, because there are no "locals" who can pass it. The congresswoman doesn't mean that there are not enough blacks on the OPD, she means there are not enough functional illiterates on the OPD, and thus the OPD is not reflective of the local population.
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10/17/2015 12:45:13 PM PDT
by
ought-six
(Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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posted on
10/17/2015 12:49:20 PM PDT
by
RedMDer
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To: AEMILIUS PAULUS
Which will make matters worse.
To: artichokegrower
The racial percentages of general population v. police officers looks to very close so don’t see what her problem is. Lowering the standards on the written exam isn’t going to get the results she wants. If an officer can’t write a decent report, cases will fall apart and criminals will be set free.
IOW, she’s saying blacks are too stupid to write a coherent case report. That’s racist! Someone should file on her.
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10/17/2015 12:50:15 PM PDT
by
bgill
( CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
To: artichokegrower
Shouldn’t the Lakers be more diverse then? It should be about half Latino with less than ten percent black.
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posted on
10/17/2015 12:56:44 PM PDT
by
1010RD
(First, Do No Harm)
To: apocalypto
Once the nation's police forces are negrified, a generation or two “up the road” it will be hell for whites. Whites will face black cops, black prosecutors and black judges. Add minority juries and you get the picture. The thing that is sick is the willingness with which whites are going down the road to destruction./p>
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