I read this opinion piece from Boston and thought it was very interesting. I thought I would share it and see what others thought.
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I read this opinion piece from Boston and thought it was very interesting. I thought I would share it and see what others thought.
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http://www.leoaffairs.com/blog/news/...s-race-matter/
While race shouldn't matter at our agency, The Broward Sheriff's Office, our Sheriff has publicly stated that he would make the agency and command staff look more reflective of the community demographics.... Sad.
Race should NEVER come into play in law enforcement. Whether its hiring or promotions, the processes should be color blind. This is not a career field where mistakes do not have consequences. In this job, mistakes get people killed. I have had great white supervisors, black supervisors, hispanic supervisors and female supervisors. They all had three things in common: they knew the job, they had common sense and they took care of their officers. I want the BEST and the BRIGHTEST out there having my back, I don't care what color your skin is. We need to stop with this crap of hiring and promoting based off of skin color. I would be embarrassed if I, or someone I knew, got promoted because of our color. WAKE UP ADMINs!!!! :cop:
Here at the Tampa Police Department our promotion policy is first and foremost a racially and genderly biased system. With RARE exception every single eligible minority is promoted at every possible opportunity. We have had minorities demoted and then promoted right back a year later. We had a Lt once who was on a 30 day suspension when they selected him to be Captain. While a sitting Captain, he was suspended 3 times.
The only recourse the W/Ms had was to negotiate a police where we control who they can promote of the lists. For example.....to make Sergeant you have to be in the top 20% of the list and they can add two names for each additional opening. What the staff has done to defeat this is hold promotions. They dont promote until they can get further and further down the list to promote minorities. A few years ago the top of the Sergeants list was all W/Ms....I think like the top 17 people. Twenty percent was like 8 people....so they held promotions for a year til they could get to an incompetent B/F.
19 or 21 officers were tied with the same score (depending upon whom you ask). 9 were racial minorities. That's about 1/2 but only whites were promoted from the white half with the same scores as the minorities for the 5 new sergeants. Only after "outcry" because of minorities and women getting passed over, time and time again did they add 2 men with the same score as the whites who are black on a separate but unequal personnel order the very next day, which makes them lower for seniority. Yes, an officer's race does matter. If you're a white cop with the Boston Police, you can be promoted but if you're not then you don't stand a snowball's chance in Boston.
For art imitating life, I leave you quotes from Leo Dicaprio, as Costigan: "Look at it this way: You're a black guy in Boston. You don't need any help from me to be completely f****d" and Marky Mark Wahlberg as Dignam: "Yeah, a lot of people just wanna slam a n******'s head through a plate-glass window" because that boys and girls is how it works on the job in Boston and I am neither a minority nor a woman but I can be honest enough to say those that are and become cops in Boston get screwed because race does matter here and so does gender or anything else they can find to discriminate for. All the children from The Boston Busing Crisis have grown up and it's payback time.
Yes it does matter VERY much.
Nor should someone be held back because of their race.Quote:
Originally Posted by 15 Year Veteran Cop
In Fort Lauderdale when you take the Sgt., LT., Capt test your name gets printed out
And placed based on your score. Then next to your score is marked male or female
Black, white, Hispanic . That needs to be removed. We also have a card you can fill
Out for the city if you are a minority and did not get the job you fill it out and send it
In. I saw this card next to our records department a while back. So I guess here race has
A lot to do with things :cry:
Here at the Sarasota Sheriff's Office, we have never had:Quote:
Originally Posted by Guest
- a black man
- a Hispanic
- a woman
- or a homosexual
in the rank of captain, major, colonel or sheriff.
The staff of the Sarasota Sheriff's Office is proudly all-white -- without any shame about it -- and has always been all-white, ever since Sarasota County was created.
IS STILL PLAYING THE VICTIM CARD!!!!!!!!!