I can seriously imagine her in the Ferguson police uniform. But then I used to watch Reno 911.
Posted on 08/19/2014 9:07:05 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Ferguson, Mo. • Ferguson city leaders urged people to stay home after dark Tuesday to "allow peace to settle in" and pledged to try to improve the police force in the St. Louis suburb where the fatal shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown has sparked nightly clashes between protesters and police.
In a public statement, the city said the mayor, the City Council and employees have been exploring ways to increase the number of African-American applicants to the law enforcement academy, develop incentive programs to encourage city residency for police officers and raise money for cameras that would be attached to patrol car dashboards and officers’ vests....
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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.
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.
Smart move regardless of where it comes from.
The same thing happened in teaching.
Getting blacks on the police force, is a small step to addressing black culture. You’re creating black role models of the good kind.
A tacit admission that the problem is racist white cops.
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.
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.
Yeah, all that and she's still functionally illiterate.
Well, we can’t promote her to lieutenant right away, maybe wait a month or three.
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.
That's retarded, sir!
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.
I say good. A black cop would have done the same! Moral of this story never bring your fists to a gun fight.
“Sir, you were jaywalking against the light and that’s retarted. Ah’m gonna have to right you a woof ticket.”
Officer “Tubeneck”
Affirmative Action cops! Cool!
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.
They will be lowering the standards very shortly.
I can seriously imagine her in the Ferguson police uniform. But then I used to watch Reno 911.
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