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Title: Police departments hiring immigrants as officers
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USA Today
URL Source: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/ ... rant-police-officers/70236828/
Published: Mar 21, 2015
Author: Alan Gomez
Post Date: 2015-03-21 18:29:31 by cranky
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Views: 16967
Comments: 67
Law enforcement agencies struggling to fill their ranks or connect with their increasingly diverse populations are turning to immigrants to fill the gap. Most agencies in the country require officers or deputies to be U.S. citizens, but some are allowing immigrants who are legally in the country to wear the badge. From Hawaii to Vermont, agencies are allowing green-card holders and legal immigrants with work permits to join their ranks. At a time when 25,000 non-U.S. citizens are serving in the U.S. military, some feel it's time for more police and sheriff departments to do the same. That's why the Nashville Police Department is joining other departments to push the state legislature to change a law that bars non-citizens from becoming law enforcement officers. Department spokesman Don Aaron said they want immigrants who have been honorably discharged from the military to be eligible for service. "Persons who have given of themselves in the service to this country potentially have much to offer Tennesseans," he said. "We feel that ... would benefit both the country and this city." Current rules vary across departments. Some, like the Chicago and Hawaii police departments, allow any immigrant with a work authorization from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to become an officer. That means people in the country on temporary visas or are applying for green cards can join. Colorado State Patrol Sgt. Justin Mullins said the department usually struggles to fill trooper positions in less populous corners of the state, including patrol sectors high up in the mountains. He said immigrants from Canada, the Bahamas, the United Kingdom, Mexico and Central America who are willing to live in those remote places have helped the agency fill those vacancies. "People that want to live there and build a family there and work there is a little more difficult to find," Mullins said. "People moving from out of state, or out of the country, if they're willing to work in these areas, then that's great for us." Other agencies, like the Cincinnati Police Department and the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, require that officers at least have a pending citizenship application on file with the federal government. And others, like the Burlington, Vt., and Boulder, Colo., police departments, require that officers be legal permanent residents, or green-card holders. With more immigrants moving to places far from the southern border or away from traditional immigrant magnets like New York City or Miami, agency leaders say it's important to have a more diverse police force to communicate with those immigrants and understand their culture. Bruce Bovat, deputy chief of operations in Burlington, said their immigrant officers help the agency be more "reflective of the community we serve." Mark Krikorian, executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies, said he has no problems with green-card holders becoming police officers because they've made a long-term commitment to the country and have undergone extensive background checks. But he worries about the security risks associated with allowing any immigrant with a work permit to become an officer, especially considering that the Obama administration has given hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants work permits. "We're handing over a gun and a badge to somebody whose background we don't really know a lot about," Krikorian said. Ali Noorani, executive director of the National Immigration Forum, said any immigrant authorized to work in the U.S. has already undergone a thorough background check and will undergo even more screening in the police application process. "The security risk is a straw man," he said. "This is about people who have gone through criminal background checks, who are meeting the very high standards that we set as a country to stay here and who only want to serve and protect their communities."
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#1. To: cranky (#0)
Generalization + Demonization = Fundamental Transformation.
Many police depts have always done this for legal immigrants/not yet citizens. See Irish cops for example. http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/OfficerOHara
Cultural diversity. Hirig illegal invaders as police.
Show me where a police department, anywhere in the nation, at any time in history, has hired "not yet citizens." Your link brings me to a cartoon.
Oh boy, did you catch Pairafleas lying again?
Name one, please.
There are three kinds of people in the world: those that can add and those that can't
Or... blow shit up with kitchen cooking instruments. Yup, pretty thorough. It's my understanding that many states don't allow non citizens to possess firearms. A firearm is part of the uniform. It's a bad bad bad (very libtard) idea to encourage non citizens to be able to police. It's a pathway to weakling our already existing laws. Yes, it's nice to offer help, assistance and "equal opportunity" to non citizens, in a weak, pathetic, let's hug each other- sorta way... but the more we hug them, the greater we shit on us. Soon there won't be an us that's noticeably better and more free than those countries around us. Non citizen policing... what a horrible and ridiculously ignorant concept.
Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on. Robert Kennedy
Irish cops.
http://www.joinlapd.com/qualifications.html Citizenship The City of Los Angeles requires that a Police Officer candidate be a United States citizen, or that a non-citizen be a permanent resident alien who, in accordance with the requirements of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), is eligible and has applied for citizenship.
Name one, please. http://www.joinlapd.com/qualifications.html Citizenship The City of Los Angeles requires that a Police Officer candidate be a United States citizen, or that a non-citizen be a permanent resident alien who, in accordance with the requirements of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), is eligible and has applied for citizenship. (Stupid conservatives don't know how to use google)
Is that a true statement? Honestly? This is an honesty test for you. We will all see if you pass or fail.
It is like some one here don't want to read a story and then look it up to see it is true or not.
Your reference discusses Police Officer candidate(s), not hired police officers. The complete reference below states that candidates must have the citizenship application "accepted" prior to said candidate taking the written exam. So no, LA doesn't hire non-citizens as police officers. The City of Los Angeles requires that a Police Officer candidate be a United States citizen, or that a non-citizen be a permanent resident alien who, in accordance with the requirements of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), is eligible and has applied for citizenship. During the selection process, each non-citizen is required to prove that USCIS accepted his/her application for citizenship prior to the date the Police Officer written test was taken.
So no, LA doesn't hire non-citizens as police officers. http://forums.officer.com/t35431/ One of the guys I went to the academy with was a British citizen. Our department hires non-citizens if you are legal to work here. It's the North Slope Borough Police department in Barrow, AK. http://www.north-slope.org/nsb/default.htm
Its occurred to me there are two reasons why we didn't believe you, and no, when a lefty says something outrageous it doesn't fall on people to google it to verify its truthfulness. First reason, leftists have been lying to people for so long now, we assume whenever your big gaping maws are open, lies are spewing out. Second reason, most people are normal, and still haven't quite grasped just how unbelievably stupid or venal lefties can be. In other words, we forget that truly Marxist areas of this country exist, and are run by those who actually come up with crap that is so rediculous or harmful, that normal people recoil at the absurdity of their actions. So, it's pretty simple, we are from earth and you are from Jupiter, because you are stupider.
A) I am not a leftists and B) Still proves you are too stupid to look stuff up.
Too stupid to look something up? Lol. Whatever helps keep the monsters away at night for ya Nancy.
It's the North Slope Borough Police department in Barrow, AK. Wait a minute... Yukon is a British citizen?!? Or are you really Yukon, and hanging out with deserter Redcoats in Alaska? BTW, how is the Yellow Canary of Western Canamerica doing these days?
No, I am not Yukon. I did a search for police depts that accept legal immigrants as cops and Alaska came up.
http://forums.officer.com/t114262/
First reason, leftists have been lying to people for so long now, we assume whenever your big gaping maws are open, lies are spewing out.... Second reason...we forget that truly Marxist areas of this country exist, and are run by those who actually come up with crap that is so rediculous or harmful, that normal people recoil at the absurdity of their actions. +2 Pericles celebrates insanity like this because as he has so often boasted, he HATES America. Thus if the policy helps destroy us, he dances in his (Greek) street with his fellow Commies.
So no, LA doesn't hire non-citizens as police officers. http://forums.officer.com/t35431/ One of the guys I went to the academy with was a British citizen. Our department hires non-citizens if you are legal to work here. It's the North Slope Borough Police department in Barrow, AK. http://www.north-slope.org/nsb/default.htm Your first link is a nearly 10-year old comment from a forum where people who claim a connection to various police departments chat. Nothing is sourced and the posters are anonymous. Your second link brought me to a page discussing whale biology.
http://forums.officer.com/t114262/ This is one of these stories designed to freak out an easily freakoutable conservative xenophobe base. Legal residents already can serve in some police depts - in some cases as legal aliens in other cases as pending citizens. See link above. In the military it is even more pronounced.
You posted the same old, outdated CHAT FORUM garbage, that doesn't prove your libtard point, that you posted on post 20... and was shown to be garbage in post 22. Show me one actual PDF document, dictating a departments requirements for hire, and a non citizen qualifies. Just ONE... from any accredited LE agency that polices one of the 50. You will not be allowed to lie here. Expect to be called out on every exaggerated claim.
Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on. Robert Kennedy
No foreigners should be police officers. Anyone who thinks foreigners should be police officers is a traitor and should be shot.
But they can be soldiers?
Soldiers shouldn't be foreigners. I was just kidding about the shot part. Rhetorically.
When I went through Basic training back circa 1985, we had an immigrant from Lebanon who was a "former" Shiite militiaman in our platoon. (Most) of the drill Sergeants hated him.... all except the African American one who made him a squad leader. The others made it their hobby to try to get him to quit, but he turned out to be one tough S.O.B. and graduated despite their efforts. That was interesting to watch. No idea where he ended up after graduation. Always wondered how and where he applied the skills he got courtesy the U.S. Army.
Soldiers shouldn't be foreigners. I agree on both counts. Cops, military, judges and elected officials should all be citizens.
Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on. Robert Kennedy
The problem I have is the freak out nature of the current conservatives. We have legal resident "Green Card" aliens in the US military and in some police depts. I don't get this fear? What will they do? Carry out a coup against the desendents of the Mayflower?
Nidal Malik Hasan (born September 8, 1970, in Arlington County, Virginia) is a Palestinian-American former United States Army psychiatrist and Medical Corps officer who, while still serving as a major in the US military, fatally shot 13 people and injured more than 30 others in the Fort Hood mass shooting on November 5, 2009.[3] At his court-martial in August 2013, Hasan admitted to the shootings.[4][5]
Don't ever PM me again. Your comments in PM are just as irrational and wrong as they are in the open forum.
I agree on both counts. Cops, military, judges and elected officials should all be citizens. ---' GrandIsland I went through basic in 1955, when there were a lot of displaced persons of my age volunteered for service as an easy way to attain citizenship. -- A good friend of mine (Latvian DP) ended up serving 20 years. And another trooper I served with had been in the 'volkstrum?' as a 13 year old boy, in 1945.. -- Good soldier..
Jeffry Dahmer - army veteran. The Beltway sniper - army veteran. All natural born American citizens.
Don't forget Timmuh.
They will take an American job. It isn't right for a foreigner to come into your country then have the authority to tell you what to do or arrest you. If you can't see that you need new eyes. Should Americans be in Russia acting as Police and arresting people?
There can be good people that are foreign who serve in the military. I just think on principal it is wrong.
It isn't right for a foreigner to come into your country then have the authority to tell you what to do or arrest you. He is not a foreigner if he is a legal alien. They would be enforcing American law. So I don't get the freak out. You want the sole right for humiliating you by being arrested to belong solely in the hands of an American citizen?
Yes you are a foreigner. Even if you have a green card.
A legal resident is not a foreigner.
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#2. To: cranky, Percy Misanthrope (#0)
Police departments hiring immigrants as officers
#3. To: cranky (#0)
Police departments hiring immigrants as officers
#4. To: Pericles (#2)
Many police depts have always done this for legal immigrants/not yet citizens.
#5. To: Percy Misanthrope (#4)
(Edited)
#6. To: Pericles (#2)
Many police depts have always done this for legal immigrants/not yet citizens.
#7. To: cranky (#0)
Ali Noorani, executive director of the National Immigration Forum, said any immigrant authorized to work in the U.S. has already undergone a thorough background check and will undergo even more screening in the police application process.
#8. To: Percy Misanthrope (#4)
how me where a police department, anywhere in the nation, at any time in history, has hired "not yet citizens."
#9. To: Dead Culture Watch, Percy Misanthrope (#5)
Here you go, stupids.
#10. To: cranky (#6)
(Edited)
Many police depts have always done this for legal immigrants/not yet citizens.
#11. To: Pericles (#10)
(Stupid conservatives don't know how to use google)
#12. To: A K A Stone (#11)
#13. To: Pericles (#10)
#14. To: Percy Misanthrope (#13)
our reference discusses Police Officer candidate(s), not hired police officers. The complete reference below states that candidates must have the citizenship application "accepted" prior to said candidate taking the written exam.
#15. To: Pericles (#14)
#16. To: Dead Culture Watch (#15)
Its occurred to me there are two reasons why we didn't believe you, and no, when a lefty says something outrageous it doesn't fall on people to google it to verify its truthfulness.
#17. To: Pericles (#16)
#18. To: Pericles (#14)
One of the guys I went to the academy with was a British citizen. Our department hires non-citizens if you are legal to work here.
#19. To: TheFireBert (#18)
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#20. To: All (#19)
Hawaii Can work in any department with just a green card Alaska Can work in ANY department with just a Green Card Louisiana No state requirement for Citizenship, about 50% of departments will take you with just a green card. Massachusetts No state requirement for citizenship, several departments available that will hire with green card. Maine No state requirement for Citizenship, about 75% will take you (including state police) with just a green card and the state police academy doesn’t require citizenship. Oklahoma Will take you on a green card – see the following CLEET standards link – http://www.iadlest.org/ndakota/POSTS2.html North Dakota POST requirements state that they will take you with just a green card – See the following link http://www.oscn.net/applications/os...p?citeID=91596/ Wisconsin Cannot find any information as per a state requirement for Citizenship. Most departments websites require it – however the State police DOES NOT. Illinois– No State requirement for Citizenship, SOME departments will take you on a green card (Incl. Chicago PD) South Dakota Will take you on a Green card but you must “declare intent to become a naturalized citizen as soon as eligible” West Virginia No state requirement for citizenship, several major departments will take you on a green card (incl the state police) Vermont no Citizenship Law - Will take Green card holders, Incl. the State Police Colorado Can work in MOST departments with just a green card, no POST type requirement for citizenship. Washington No legal requirement for citizenship, nor any POST type requirement, however I only found two small departments that will take you with a green card. Virginia POST requires US Citizenship – BUT will waive the Citizenship requirement if good reason is shown and such a waiver is filed on form “DCJS Form w-1 application of waiver for minimum qualifications” Chiefs of Police and Sheriffs have the authority to approve this application for waiver – as does the POST agency Ohio No state or post requirement for citizenship, Spoke to several departments who stated over the phone that they would hire Green card holders.
#21. To: Dead Culture Watch, Pericles (#15)
Its occurred to me there are two reasons why we didn't believe you, and no, when a lefty says something outrageous it doesn't fall on people to google it to verify its truthfulness.
#22. To: Pericles (#14)
our reference discusses Police Officer candidate(s), not hired police officers. The complete reference below states that candidates must have the citizenship application "accepted" prior to said candidate taking the written exam.
#23. To: Percy Misanthrope (#22)
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Hawaii Can work in any department with just a green card Alaska Can work in ANY department with just a Green Card Louisiana No state requirement for Citizenship, about 50% of departments will take you with just a green card. Massachusetts No state requirement for citizenship, several departments available that will hire with green card. Maine No state requirement for Citizenship, about 75% will take you (including state police) with just a green card and the state police academy doesn’t require citizenship. Oklahoma Will take you on a green card – see the following CLEET standards link – http://www.iadlest.org/ndakota/POSTS2.html North Dakota POST requirements state that they will take you with just a green card – See the following link http://www.oscn.net/applications/os...p?citeID=91596/ Wisconsin Cannot find any information as per a state requirement for Citizenship. Most departments websites require it – however the State police DOES NOT. Illinois– No State requirement for Citizenship, SOME departments will take you on a green card (Incl. Chicago PD) South Dakota Will take you on a Green card but you must “declare intent to become a naturalized citizen as soon as eligible” West Virginia No state requirement for citizenship, several major departments will take you on a green card (incl the state police) Vermont no Citizenship Law - Will take Green card holders, Incl. the State Police Colorado Can work in MOST departments with just a green card, no POST type requirement for citizenship. Washington No legal requirement for citizenship, nor any POST type requirement, however I only found two small departments that will take you with a green card. Virginia POST requires US Citizenship – BUT will waive the Citizenship requirement if good reason is shown and such a waiver is filed on form “DCJS Form w-1 application of waiver for minimum qualifications” Chiefs of Police and Sheriffs have the authority to approve this application for waiver – as does the POST agency Ohio No state or post requirement for citizenship, Spoke to several departments who stated over the phone that they would hire Green card holders.
#24. To: Pericles (#23)
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#25. To: Pericles (#23)
xenophobe base.
#26. To: A K A Stone (#25)
No foreigners should be police officers. Anyone who thinks foreigners should be police officers is a traitor and should be shot.
#27. To: Pericles (#26)
But they can be soldiers?
#28. To: A K A Stone, pericles (#27)
(Edited)
But they can be soldiers?
#29. To: A K A Stone (#27)
#30. To: A K A Stone (#27)
#31. To: Pericles (#30)
I don't get this fear? What will they do?
Nidal Malik Hasan 
Born Nidal Malik Hasan
September 8, 1970 [1]
Arlington County, Virginia, USANationality American Death sentence Parent(s) Deceased Motive Jihad[2] Killings Date November 5, 2009
c. 1:34 p.m. – c. 1:44 p.m.Location(s) Fort Hood, Texas, US. Target(s) U.S. Army soldiers and civilians Killed 13 Injured 32 Weapon(s) FN Five-seven pistol Imprisoned at U.S. Disciplinary Barracks
#32. To: Pericles (#30)
#33. To: GrandIsland, AKA Stone, Y'ALL (#29)
A K A Stone (#27) --- Soldiers shouldn't be foreigners.
#34. To: VxH (#31)
#35. To: Pericles (#34)
#36. To: Pericles (#30)
What will they do? Carry out a coup against the desendents of the Mayflower?
#37. To: tpaine (#33)
#38. To: A K A Stone (#36)
(Edited)
They will take an American job.
#39. To: Pericles (#38)
He is not a foreigner if he is a legal alien.
#40. To: A K A Stone (#39)
Yes you are a foreigner. Even if you have a green card.
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