[Alberta's Child]

I find it interesting that the press suffers from credentialism, the idea that someone with a college degree is always better than someone without. This seems to be their biggest complaint against many of his hires.

In some cases, yes.

In the case of the NYPD, a college degree was actually supposed to be a formal requirement for the job.

[daviddennis]

It seems to me that someone with a bit of a criminal mind might be best at catching criminals, and such a person is unlikely to have a degree.

I don't think such a requirement is such a great idea, in other words. It's not unreasonable to waive requirements if someone otherwise good comes to your attention.

It seems weird that so little attention is given to what happened when our pal Bernie was police commissioner. It seems like most of the bad news was after he left the job, which makes me think he was a good police commissioner, or perhaps him and Rudy worked more effectively as a team than he could without Rudy.

That certainly doesn't reflect negatively on Rudy.

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