More hope and change ?????? (Obama, March, cost, biased)

[Roadking2003]

Leadership from the Obama Administration???? Is this what he meant by "hope and change"?

And why do we need the DOJ telling cities who they can hire?


By Lucas Sullivan (http://www.daytondailynews.com/services/staff/lucas-sullivan-332434.html - broken link), Staff Writer Updated 12:27 PM Thursday, March 10, 2011

DAYTON — The city’s Civil Service Board and the U.S. Department of Justice have agreed on a lower passing score for the police recruit exam after it was rejected because not enough blacks passed the exam.
The city lowered both written exams a combined 15 points that resulted in 258 more people passing the exam, according to a statement released Thursday by Civil Service officials. The agreement allows the city to immediately resume its plans to hire police and firefighters.


The original passing scores determined by Civil Service required candidates to answer 57 of 86 (66 percent) questions correctly on one portion and 73 of 102 (72 percent) on the other. The lowered benchmark requires candidates to answer 50 of 86 (58 percent) questions correctly and 64 of 102 (63 percent) of questions on the other.

[westwaswon]

That is so sad in so many ways .

[momonkey]

Originally Posted by Roadking2003

Leadership from the Obama Administration???? Is this what he meant by "hope and change"?

And why do we need the DOJ telling cities who they can hire?


By Lucas Sullivan (http://www.daytondailynews.com/services/staff/lucas-sullivan-332434.html - broken link), Staff Writer Updated 12:27 PM Thursday, March 10, 2011

DAYTON — The city’s Civil Service Board and the U.S. Department of Justice have agreed on a lower passing score for the police recruit exam after it was rejected because not enough blacks passed the exam.
The city lowered both written exams a combined 15 points that resulted in 258 more people passing the exam, according to a statement released Thursday by Civil Service officials. The agreement allows the city to immediately resume its plans to hire police and firefighters.


The original passing scores determined by Civil Service required candidates to answer 57 of 86 (66 percent) questions correctly on one portion and 73 of 102 (72 percent) on the other. The lowered benchmark requires candidates to answer 50 of 86 (58 percent) questions correctly and 64 of 102 (63 percent) of questions on the other.

Must be a racially biased test.

[AeroGuyDC]

This seems a little embarrassing for black people in my opinion.

PS...I thought this was already resolved through case law (ie. NJ firefighters promotion scandal?)

[stayinformed40]

Pathetic

[C.C]

Maybe Dayton could smooth things over by throwing one of those popular affirmative action bake sales? They always seem to make everyone feel better about themselves...

[robertjohnson]

Originally Posted by momonkey

Must be a racially biased test.

Can you tell the difference between your a$$ and a hole in the ground?
Circle one. *
1) no
2) yes
3) don't know

* 'Circle one' was changed in future tests because some testees took it as a command and failed.

[nicet4]

We must struggle at all cost to deny the obvious.

[Booya]

Originally Posted by Roadking2003

Leadership from the Obama Administration???? Is this what he meant by "hope and change"?
And why do we need the DOJ telling cities who they can hire?

By Lucas Sullivan (http://www.daytondailynews.com/services/staff/lucas-sullivan-332434.html - broken link), Staff Writer Updated 12:27 PM Thursday, March 10, 2011

DAYTON — The city’s Civil Service Board and the U.S. Department of Justice have agreed on a lower passing score for the police recruit exam after it was rejected because not enough blacks passed the exam.
The city lowered both written exams a combined 15 points that resulted in 258 more people passing the exam, according to a statement released Thursday by Civil Service officials. The agreement allows the city to immediately resume its plans to hire police and firefighters.


The original passing scores determined by Civil Service required candidates to answer 57 of 86 (66 percent) questions correctly on one portion and 73 of 102 (72 percent) on the other. The lowered benchmark requires candidates to answer 50 of 86 (58 percent) questions correctly and 64 of 102 (63 percent) of questions on the other.

This is horrible. And insulting to blacks as well. If I were a black American I would be insulted by the lowering of the score so I could get it.
Obama just doesn't get it does he?

[Arjay51]

Well, I as a member of the public will certainly feel safer with less intelligent members of the fire and police departments defending me. Thanks oh so much federal government mandated ftesting.