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Police Officially Refuse To Hire Applicants With High IQ Scores

 
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Police Officially Refuse To Hire Applicants With High IQ Scores
Just something to bear in mind when you are interacting with the police. Or any government official, really.

You're probably talking to a moron. pick

Police Officially Refuse To Hire Applicants With High IQ Scores

It’s long been rumored amongst law enforcement critics, but did you know that police departments officially disqualify high-scoring applicants? That’s not to say that all cops are stupid… Just that if you’re too smart, the police simply won’t hire you.

[link to politicalblindspot.com]

Click the link. The picture alone is worth the effort.
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they want obedient slaves who do not question their actions.
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they want obedient slaves who do not question their actions.
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perzactly
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Now you can't have the Black Bros on the force feeling Inadequate due to their sub Room Temp IQ, now can we ?
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Easier to corrupt the weak minded
Lets go Brandon!!

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This has been going on for at least forty years.
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This has been going on for at least forty years.
 Quoting: R&y


hesright
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[link to nyletterpress.wordpress.com] there is alot more, find them yourself if you care

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Easier to corrupt the weak minded
 Quoting: The Old Timer


You don't have to corrupt retards. They will not question orders, they will not demand a slice of the payout.
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[link to en.wikipedia.org]

This is what you have to do.
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This doesn't surprise me. Not because I think that police officers are stupid -- and I HOPE that police detectives are more intelligent than most people -- but because highly intelligent people think for themselves instead of doing something just because someone higher up in command tells them to do so.
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That explains how my brother became a cop.
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That explains how my brother became a cop.
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LOL, nice sister.
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An article from the year 2000!!


[link to abcnews.go.com]

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Unions have been doing this for years.

You dont want SLAVES that are more intelligent than the masters.
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.

This line Says IT ALL.

" it was proven that police departments held all to this same standard and thus rejected all applicants who scored high."

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These dipshits are hired too fuck up freedom.
When they over react and kill people , the judge gets to say that it is okay to do that from now on.

That is also how they get away with these hoaxes , easy to compartmentalize tards.. And they are all too willing to play Stormtroopers through your neighborhoods and take away all your guns , draw your blood, police statist bullshit artists
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Well that explains it .
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Jordan, a 49-year-old college graduate, took the exam in 1996 and scored 33 points, the equivalent of an IQ of 125. But New London police interviewed only candidates who scored 20 to 27, on the theory that those who scored too high could get bored with police work and leave soon after undergoing costly training.

Most Cops Just Above Normal The average score nationally for police officers is 21 to 22, the equivalent of an IQ of 104, or just a little above average.

[link to abcnews.go.com]


Do you have what it takes?? To sit in a car and eat donuts all day?
It kinda makes sense though, the smarter people shouldn't be wasting their time filling the role of grunts on the field.

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Judge Dorsey, however, ruled that Mr. Jordan that there was no protection offered to intelligent people from discriminatory hiring practices by individual police departments.

Why?

Because, Dorsey explained, it was proven that police departments held all to this same standard and thus rejected all applicants who scored high.

I know how that comes across to me.
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This doesn't surprise me. Not because I think that police officers are stupid -- and I HOPE that police detectives are more intelligent than most people -- but because highly intelligent people think for themselves instead of doing something just because someone higher up in command tells them to do so.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 56009434


The detectives are promoted from the same pool, so no, they aren't more intelligent.
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Glad none of them are my family members. Cross that line with men you just might wake up dead. Nobody gives 2 shits about families of dickhead cops.
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They will not question orders, they will not demand a slice of the payout.
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this1
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This is an oldie but a goodie, OP.

They also excessively psyche test their applicants, so the fact that they are all a bunch of unempathetic bullies is also no accident.

It's by nefarious design, my friends.

Smart enough to take orders, too dumb to question them.

Ridiculous process, but these are the times we're living in.
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they want obedient slaves who do not question their actions.
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..most of them are dogmatic 'catholics' who do NOT question authority..

"fully-baked" is how the 'internal affairs' guys prefer..
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That's because,contrary to tv shows and movies, it's mostly a boring and repetitive job. A person with a high IQ would become quickly bored. People with average or a little above average IQs tend to do better at such jobs.
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Jordan, a 49-year-old college graduate, took the exam in 1996 and scored 33 points, the equivalent of an IQ of 125. But New London police interviewed only candidates who scored 20 to 27, on the theory that those who scored too high could get bored with police work and leave soon after undergoing costly training.

Most Cops Just Above Normal The average score nationally for police officers is 21 to 22, the equivalent of an IQ of 104, or just a little above average.

[link to abcnews.go.com]


Do you have what it takes?? To sit in a car and eat donuts all day?
It kinda makes sense though, the smarter people shouldn't be wasting their time filling the role of grunts on the field.
 Quoting: Melancholy


..you haven't been around cops much then. they do not sit around eating donuts. they amase a ton of information on the citizenry--"the grids" and they view their patrol beats as their personal 'fiefdoms.'

..they have 'the dirt' on every politician/judge/lawyer and many/most prominent business owners..

..they cater to the rich--play poker at their golf clubs and masonic lodges, and vaction with influential shakers under the radar.

..they are not in 'general circulation' amongst the commoners--though they will 'pretend' they are just like the little guys..

..they walk a fine line between the elite, and the unions.

take heed.
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Just something to bear in mind when you are interacting with the police. Or any government official, really.

You're probably talking to a moron. pick

Police Officially Refuse To Hire Applicants With High IQ Scores

It’s long been rumored amongst law enforcement critics, but did you know that police departments officially disqualify high-scoring applicants? That’s not to say that all cops are stupid… Just that if you’re too smart, the police simply won’t hire you.

[link to politicalblindspot.com]

Click the link. The picture alone is worth the effort.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 60562798


Only in the US. Here its only "la creme de la creme"

But we have some morron too cool2
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I was a third generation police officer, I scored very high in the IQ department and had a two year degree in an age when only 8th grade was required to do the work.
It was constantly a challenge to maintain my existence due to the stupidity of my fellow workers, who would screw up on the job and I had to be careful or I could go down with them. My father wisely always told me "it's the easiest job in the world to get fired from".
I kept a low profile, worked mostly alone and had a good record of arrests the "smart" way. Yet, twice in my career, through no fault of my own, I was whisked away from what I will call my career "comfort zone" due to some "bigger picture" scandal that happened far from my patrol area. I was transferred for just having "five or more years in one place" due to a corruption scandal in a NW area district and thrown into a hell hole late in my career. All the work, the volunteering, the efforts were just thrown away by the city and I ended up having to either retire or find a way out.
Well, I did, both in the early one and the latter one, and I retired the very first day I was eligible. Why? Because if you make it that far, 23 years, it's a miracle if you still have a clean record. (as I did). I was not going to take any more risk that some idiot would get me in trouble for their actions. I survived, went back to school to get my B.A,M.A. and I still work in a completely unrelated profession of my own.
Stay away from any service job if you are smart. It is very hard to avoid being caught up in some impropriety due to the mistakes of others.
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I get bored just thinking about them.
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Soooo..What would the IQ of somebody who believed this bullshit be??

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