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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Lowering the score admits failure. Its racist, to lower the score is calling the minority stupid or ignorant.
Bad, stupid idea!! I think we’ve lowered our standards to a critical level in our country…plain, old fashioned common sense tells you that “Lower standards = more thugs and incompetence”…I’m not sure we can reverse this trend, which is scary!!
Lets make America the dumbest country in the world, its only the 52nd so far. with California the 42nd dumbest state in the union.
WTF
Why !.??. They shouldn’t be any different than anyone else. If they do , they get a lesser quality Police Officer.
Stupid. Now when people say the cops are stupid they will be right.
Believe it, it’s true….Obama’s own force, better armed than the Military. Obama spoke of this over 7 years ago.
when America lowered her standerds we got Barack Hussein Obama
So shes admitting they are dumber
We need quality not diversity.