Chicago:Police May Scrap Entrance Exam to attract minority hiring.

[Danno 1,228]

Police May Scrap Entrance Exam: Report

By STEVE BRYANT

http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local-beat/...m-80790827.html

The Chicago Police Department is seriously considering scrapping the police entrance exam, sources tell Fran Spielman.

Dropping the exam would bolster minority hiring and avert legal battles, according to one source, while others confirm that the exam could be scrapped to open the process to as many people as possible.

However, the lack of an exam would make Chicago the lone major city without one, and experts contend that the exam is integral to eliminating unqualified applicants.

The CPD has tried in recent years to boost minority hiring by offering the police exam online and turning to minority clergy to help in the recruitment effort.

But those efforts have met with frustration. Despite seeing an increase in the number of minority applicants in 2006, the last year the exam was offered, the online component was never launched.

And as of last year, one in four patrol officers were African-American, but just one in 12 Lieutenants were of color.

Fraternal Order of Police President Mark Donahue said the plan "sounds ridiculous."

"With this, you're taking away one of the steps that attempts to legitimize the (hiring) process," he said.

Asked about plan Wednesday morning, Mayor Daley said he was unaware of any plans to do away with the exam.

"I never heard anything about that," he said.

But the city's Department of Human Resources didn't deny it. In a statement, the department said the city is "reviewing all options right now on how to handle the application process."

The CPD is currently operating at 2,000 officers-a-day short of its authorized strength. Police hired only 46 officers this year, with plans to hire less than 100 next year -- and those hirings rely on federal funds.

What's more, City Hall has floated the idea of imposing cop furloughs to meet a tight budget.

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stupid!

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Why have any standards? Just throw badges and guns out the window in minority neighborhoods. Whoever picks them up gets the job.

Edited January 7, 2010 by John Galt

[Danno 1,228]

Why have any standards? Just throw badges and guns out the window in minority neighborhoods. Whoever picks them up gets the job.

It just might come to that.

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http://blogs.lasvegassun.com/news/2010/jan...ral-courthouse/

Courthouse gunman had history of brushes with law

I guess they need to train the police a bit more with how to shoot a gun. The police fired 81 rounds and had 2 hit the target

81 shots, two hits = .024%

[Danno 1,228]

http://blogs.lasvegassun.com/news/2010/jan...ral-courthouse/

Courthouse gunman had history of brushes with law

I guess they need to train the police a bit more with how to shoot a gun. The police fired 81 rounds and had 2 hit the target

81 shots, two hits = .024%

Maybe they were doing the "horizontal hold" style thing that looks so cool in the videos?

[slim 1,533]

This must be an old article because CPD's been doing furloughs for quite a while now.