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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Yes, raise the standards for everyone.
makes sense have to stupid protect the losers in oakland if cali shook and oak land sunk it would be a good start
How bout lowering yourself to a$#%&!@*
Raise the standards!
Instead of lowering the standards just give it to them. If not it might mean your a racist then they’ll sue you.
That is called racism! No need to lower standards (which would be applied across the board). Perhaps we need to RAISE standards if we want to stop some of ther stupid issues we see too often!
Oh yeah good ole Oakland, land of the thugs
Bull!!!
That is just what Oakland needs
Study….get smarter