An Oakland City Councilwoman, Desley Clarke, is trying to put forth new regulations to lower the passing scores on the police exams, in the name of diversity. Most standard police exams are high school level, with emphasis on writing and grammar skills. Police officers must be capable of writing reports, that will be seen in courts, if the report reflects a conviction.
Lowering the exam passing score of 45, to 42 seems to be not in the best interest of anyone, even the applicant. What would work would be seminars, teaching exactly the type of writing skills and rudimentary skills one needs to pass the test. The only thing gained by lowering the exam score will be having senior officers have to teach the recruits later, or having them fail their probation. This is not a question of diversity, its a question of educating people in the basics.
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No I don’t think so! There are PLENTY of American women who are police and they didn’t have to seek lower police exam!
Dumb it down and the whine.
Donald, I find your post insulting. Yes, there are good police officers and bad police officers. But when you have people like Obama,sharpton, and the other liberals who incite riots and vandalism what do you expect. Also when you have a president and his cronies inciting violence against police officers whose left to fight crime. My father worked in law enforcement so I know about the good and bad in law enforcement.
Wrong gyess they want any dim witt to police the streets but can you expect from Oakland its in CA
Richard Bunker very well said sir
we don’t need muslims in office
Absolutely ridiculous…people should raise THEIR standards for a job or a position…it’s called “bettering yourself”!
How about someone study and work hard for it!!
DON’T DO IT.
More dumbing down of America I don’t think we can stand much more of this