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Fact: the testing and selection process standards in many areas have been lowered in order to meet prescribed quotas of minorities and females. I'm not saying that minorities and females are inferior but this is a fact.
Brandon,
I have read various of your posts and you seem a very bright and articulate person, however, could you please elaborate and substantiate such a stupid, thoughtless and generalized statement as the one above?
While I can completely agree that the best man/woman should be the one to get the job and understand the argument that posters on this thread have made. I simply cannot understand that someone would be ignorant enough to believe that one race(ethnicity) is superior to another with a specific inference that the white race is superior to minorities and women.
There are variables to each and every person of each and every race. I have worked with competent and incompetent officers of varying ethnicities. I cannot say that I have found one to be better than the other, as you cannot simply paint brush the issue. I work with
individuals who happen to be of a particular ethnic background, not the other way around.
Why is there a push for diversity in LE and the increased hiring of both minorities and females? Well that simply has to do with the dept. reflecting and matching the society is polices. I will go on a limb and assume that everyone who has posted thus far on this thread is a caucasian male. How would you all feel if the large majority of police in your neighborhood were black or hispanic. I am assuming you would feel uncomfortable. Hopefully, not because you are racist, but more so because it is merely human nature to feel more comfortable with familiarity to oneself. Hence in order to be able to work with the people, you must have a dept. that matches or attempts to match the population that it patrols.
While this is in and of itself dumb, it is a necessity at this time for LE. This is especially due to the fact that in the past many people have had bad encounters with officers of a different ethinic background.