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Not extensive enough. Unless they are trying to get high school wrestling team rejects. They don't want anyone too smart on the force, either. That's why the courts said they are allowed to exclude applicants who score too high on the IQ test. They just want animals that will blindly follow whatever orders they given.

I just wrote to another poster that I once applied to a big city police department for a job. I thought it was a fair, balanced act. Police ARE of a certain nature, just as politicians, soldiers, athletes, actors, etc., generally are.

I did take the I.Q. test. The tester, an older guy, said that I probably wouldn't be happy as a police office because my IQ was too high. It's NOT that high but I got his point.
I finished the Academy but didn't take the job because I got the REAL job I wanted, NOT in police enforcement.

I SHOULD have known better than to post something positive about police departments on this site.
10,000 apologies!

I did take the I.Q. test. The tester, an older guy, said that I probably wouldn't be happy as a police office because my IQ was too high. It's NOT that high but I got his point. I finished the Academy but didn't take the job because I got the REAL job I wanted, NOT in police enforcement.

That makes no sense to me. Somebody too smart to be happy as a street cop could become a detective.

Unless it's an excuse to exclude smarter white applicants so the pool includes more minority applicants.