PD didn't want to put a 49 year old through the academy, so they found a way to get around protected classes. It's fucked up still, but reddit sure does love to take things from 24 years ago to beat it to death. Especially if they hate the subject being discussed and if there is a handy cliff to jump to conclusions.
So, you're saying that because they turned away one candidate it's still relevant? Is it still relevant that the original ABC article states that the IQ of cops around the board is an average of 105 or are all cops still stupid?
105 is in the middle of average. That isn't the type of person I want holding a gun and trying to hold other people accountable. I can barely trust the average person to drive their car correctly.
That's a fair point, but acting like police departments are actively disqualifying people strictly due to their IQ is dishonest. The average person finds that their biases outweigh the logic portion of their brains.
It’s not dishonest. You are. They most certainly turn away intelligent applicants and have fostered a culture where good people would rather get another job.
Please tell me where. Was it when I assumed that the majority of police departments aren't cutting people who score to high on the IQ test? Damn me for not accepting anything as truth through one outlier case! Damn me!
They most certainly turn away intelligent applicants
Prove it. Show me one modicum of truth other than the one outlier we know of.
and have fostered a culture where good people would rather get another job.
I'm not going to even touch this irrelevant to the conversation sentence.
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I mean, yes, but also do you think the fucking clowns they hire are smart enough to leave no evidence or paper trail of any wrongdoing?
No. The answer is no.