Comment by rootusrootus
16 hours ago
Has it not been fairly common to require police officers to have a bachelor’s degree? Or an associate’s? I think recently that has been relaxed but I’ve lived in places where it was absolutely a requirement.
I don’t think they’re as stupid as you suggest.
Police departments are known to avoid hiring people that get high marks in school, under the principle that such individuals will become bored with the job and quit. They literally look for average people with average intelligence: C students.
Now factor in the slow decline of our educational institutions, where grade inflation has systematically diminished the credibility of a degree. I would wager that many C students today would have failed out completely 30 years ago.
In that light, it is not surprising that people are seeing ICE agents behave like brown shirts. No one in power wants those people asking any kind of hard questions about what they are being ordered to do.
Having a degree is a very low bar for intelligence.
Police departments won the right to discriminate _against_ intelligence in 1997 on the Jordan vs The City of New London case[1].
They literally aim to be dumber than average.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wonderlic_test
> I don’t think they’re as stupid as you suggest.
I'll just leave this here:
https://abcnews.com/US/court-oks-barring-high-iqs-cops/story...
It says the national average is just slightly above average IQ. Sounds fine.
> Sounds fine.
Really? Maybe your perception of the "average" person is colored by where you live and who you interact with.
In any case, the dumber they are, the more lethal they are.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01602...
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