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Title: Police Test So Easy, It's a Joke (Negros are too stupid to pass it otherwise)
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URL Source: http://www.myfoxmemphis.com/dpp/new ... ce-test-so-easy,-it%27s-a-joke
Published: Feb 18, 2010
Author: Lauren Lee
Post Date: 2010-02-18 09:11:08 by dont eat that
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Nearly 40 percent of the Memphis Police force is preparing for a test on Friday that could change their career, but many officers are saying the test is so easy, it's become a joke. Fox13 obtained some practice materials and could not believe the questions. "Our standards are the highest. Our officers are the finest." That's the motto of the Memphis Police Academy. This is one of the questions pulled from practice materials used in the sergeant's promotional process: A search warrant is a document that gives permission to conduct a search: A) With consent B) Without consent C) Of an arrested individual D) Of an abandoned vehicle Memphis Police Officers who did not want to be interviewed publicly say the promotional process has become a joke; the test is embarrassingly easy. Memphis Police Association president J.D. Sewell says that was intentional. "That is a goal, to make it simple enough and fair enough for everybody that hopefully there's no grounds to challenge it in court," says Sewell. The promotional process in the Memphis Police Department is notorious for landing the City of Memphis in court. In 2005 when the MPD was promoting to the rank of major, the city used content exam scores to rank candidates. But city officials thought not enough African American candidates scored high enough to be promoted. This caused a group of officers to sue. It also caused the city to re-think the way it promotes officers. Sewell says the city must use an exam, which has typically been the cause of discrimination lawsuits, "I propose that it be easy and they go by seniority because then there's no discrimination.” Some questions resemble elementary grammar: Select the word to complete the following sentence. Citizens should always lock ________ vehicles and secure valuables in the trunk. A) There B) They're C) Their D) They Even some pertaining to police work seemed over simplified. A search warrant must be issued by: A) An impartial citizen B) The court C) A lawyer D) A senior police official Memphis Police Director Larry Godwin declined an on camera interview because the MPD does not handle its own promotional process. But in a written statement Godwin says: "I expect that the process will be challenging and will provide this department and our citizens with the most competent and qualified individuals. I would hope that the test is not so elementary that only those candidates with seniority points get promoted. Seniority should play a role in the process, but the test should be challenging enough that seniority is not the determining factor." Godwin referred Fox13 to the city of Memphis for comment. Mayor AC Wharton declined to comment on camera, but Labor Manager Chandell Ryan issued a statement. It says in part, “Based on the amount of litigation involving the City of Memphis relative to the promotional processed within the Memphis Police Department, the City contracted with Cassi Fields, Ph.D. of McLean, Virginia who was referred by the United States Department of Justice.” The city is paying Fields Consulting $1.2 Million. City Council Member Shea Flinn laughed when reading some examples from practice questions. "The citizens want the best qualified police force this city can provide them and that's what we owe them and that's what we’re striving for," says Flinn. "If a professional can tell me those questions achieve that, ok." The professionals, Fields Consulting Group, designed and are responsible for administering the Sergeant Promotion Test. Fields consulting did not return an e-mail and several calls requesting comment, although a receptionist confirmed Dr. Cassie Fields had received the messages. But sources within the police department tell Fox13 the company was told the primary goal is not to be sued. "That should be a goal of any fair process is that it doesn't result in litigation but at the end of the day we can't lose sight of the ball," says Flinn. "The idea is to promote the most qualified candidate for the position." Sources tell Fox13 that test administrators have told sergeant applicants that the actual exam will be completely made up of the practice materials and practice test questions. But Sewell, who going through the process currently says the test will be more challenging than the practice materials would lead you to believe. "The modules, the training materials, there is a lot of easy stuff, but it was 120 questions on the practice test and nobody scored perfect they did have some hard stuff," says Sewell. And the process is extremely competitive. The last sergeant's promotion test was eight years ago. And the only officers eligible to take that test were the officers who graduated the academy in 1995 or earlier. That means nearly 900 officers are competing for 230 sergeant positions. Nearly 40 percent of the Memphis Police force will be taking the exam. "They're worried if they don't make it this round they'll have to wait another eight years for another step and they're close to retirement," says Sewell. Sewell says the promotions process is Memphis is extremely flawed. In other cities, Sewell says promotions happen every couple of years. But in Memphis, many officers are worried this is a once in a career chance. So for months, patrolmen have been studying questions like this: A complete sentence must include: A) A subject B) A verb C) A pronoun D) Both a and b
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Since NY put a college course requirement in, the number of Irish applying for FDNY has fallen... Igniore thread...
The fact I was an RM2 escapes you obviously, and what that implies. Badeye posted on 2007-01-30 16:42:29 ET Reply Trace How many did you get right, padlock?
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Gee, Boris, I've only seen you post that about a dozen times so far. It must really mean something to you. What does your shrink think?
Get a pilot ... flight plan !
A) There B) They're C) Their D) They I tell you what. If a darkie loses out because of this question, he will claim discrimination. Probably because the word "dey" was misspelled.
Boris, are you allowed to freely mingle with the normal people? Back when this was still a sane country people like you were institutionalized for life, for everybody's benefit.
I have allergies !
Bush never rode a horse. He's a coward, boris.
Sounds like a Geico add, "so easy a ..." Well, you know.
'They're standing on the corner and they can't speak English.' I can't even talk the way these people talk: Why you ain't,? Where you is,? What he drive,? Where he stay,? Where he work,? Who you be...? And I blamed the kid until I heard the mother talk. And then I heard the father talk. Everybody knows it's important to speak English except these knuckleheads. You can't be a doctor with that kind of crap coming out of your mouth In fact you will never get any kind of job making a decent living. People marched and were hit in the face with rocks to get an Education, and now we've got these knuckleheads walking around. The lower economic people are not holding up their end in this deal. These people are not parenting. They are buying things for kids. $500 sneakers for what?? And they won't spend $200 for Hooked on Phonics. I am talking about these people who cry when their son is standing there in an orange suit. Where were you when he was 2 Where were you when he was 12? Where were you when he was 18 and how come you didn't know that he had a pistol? And where is the father? Or who is his father? People putting their clothes on backward:? Isn't that a sign of something gone wrong? People with their hats on backward, pants down around the crack, isn't that a sign of something??? Isn't it a sign of something when she has her dress all the way up and got all type of needles [piercing] going through her body? What part of Africa did this come from? We are not Africans. Those people are not Africans; they don't know a thing about Africa. I say this all of the time. It would be like white people saying they are European-American. That is totally stupid. I was born here, and so were my parents and grand parents and, very likely my great grandparents. I don't have any connection to Africa, no more than white Americans have to Germany, Scotland, England, Ireland, or the Netherlands?. The same applies to 99 percent of all the black Americans as regards to Africa. So stop, already! ! ! With names like Shaniqua, Taliqua and Mohammed and all of that crap ..... and all of them are in jail. Brown or black versus the Board of Education is no longer the white person's problem. We have got to take the neighborhood back. People used to be ashamed. Today a woman has eight children with eight different 'husbands' -- or men or whatever you call them now. We have millionaire football players who cannot read. We have million-dollar basketball players who can't write two paragraphs. We, as black folks have to do a better job. Someone working at Wal-Mart with seven kids, you are hurting us. We have to start holding each other to a higher standard. We cannot blame the white people any longer.' Dr. William Henry 'Bill' Cosby, Jr., Ed.D.
That doesn't excuse your racism you mental patient asshole.
So why do you bother soiling this site with your vacuous and inane commentary? ... yukon haha lots of laughing out loud
When Did the Concept of Celebrity Jump the Shark? URL Source: http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/k ... concept-of-celebrity-jump- the- Author: Kurt Schlichter Somewhere over the last 25 years, the idea of what constitutes a “celebrity” changed from a person with some kind of history of achievement to pretty much anyone with a pulse who manages to get his, her or its mug splashed across a TV screen. Actually, as the wailing and gnashing of teeth surrounding the death of Michael Jackson demonstrated last year, the pulse is now optional. Nowhere is this more apparent than the ridiculous, cynical remake of “We are the World,” an exercise that according to news accounts seemed less focused on assisting the people of Haiti than on stroking the egos of the pseudo-stars and future nobodies who did the yodeling. The tiresome video (directed by the tiresome Paul Haggis) raises an important question – who the hell are these people? I think one of them – the dude with the expensive clothes and dull stare – was Puff Diddley or P. Daddy or whatever idiotic moniker he’s using this week. You know, there was a time when grown men used their given names instead of childish nicknames that are just emblems of the eternal adolescence that modern pop culture worships. Now, the original “We are the World” was itself nearly unlistenable, but that’s a matter of taste and reasonable people can disagree (I thought the British supergroup Band-Aid’s “Do They Know It57;s Christmas?” was a much better song, though it shared 60;World57;s61; inexcusable refusal to confront the reason the Ethiopian drought turned into the Ethiopian famine – the cruelty and stupidity of its left wing government ). However, at least most of the participants were people with track records of success. You had Bruce Springsteen, Paul Simon, Billy Joel, Diana Ross, Bob Dylan, Dionne Warwick and a bunch of others. Now, not all of them might have been your cup of tea – I’d rather pass a kidney stone made of broken glass than listen to the Boss – but you had at least heard of them. Let’s review the crop of hit-making legends present at the recording of the remake: Well, Barbra Streisand showed up. She’s a real star, and her presence assures the buy-in of the middle-aged gay couple demographic. There’s “will.i.am.” Mr. am is a member of a group called the Black Eyed Peas. I’ve also heard of them. They suck. And you’ve also got noted cannabis aficionado Snoop Dogg, who probably did it because he confused Haiti with Jamaica. Also present were entities known as “Weezy,” “Drake,” and “Kanye West.” I thought “Weezy” was Sherman Helmsley’s wife on The Jeffersons. Apparently she’s gained some tats, some extra appendages and started rapping. Drake sounds like a cool name for a private eye, but my guess is he’s a rapper too. Apparently most “stars” today are rappers. I have heard of this Kanye fellow – I think he blamed Hurricane Katrina on George Bush. I bet he blames the earthquake on 43 as well – hell, apparently everything’s Bush’s fault anyway. The news report on the recording session also raised more questions than it answered with sentences like: Fifteen-year-old Canadian heartthrob Justin Bieber, who sang the opening line originally performed by Richie, joked that he would ask his new friend, R&B singer Akon, to get the telephone number of Nicole Scherzinger of the Pussycat Dolls. I know who Lionel Ritchie is, and I know what Canada is. Other than that, these words make no sense when placed in that sequence. We can sum up the whole thing with another sentence from the same news story: “Randy Phillips, one of the organizers, said his ‘one regret’ was the absence of dance-pop star Lady Gaga.” How lame is any endeavor where the absence of Lady Gaga makes it worse? The point isn’t that charity is bad. USA for Africa generated tens of millions and hopefully it was well spent. To the extent this generates money that is neither squandered nor diverted into the pockets of thugs, good. The point is not that these singers are somehow wrong for using their talents, such as they are, to assist others in emergencies – we should all do so when disasters happen. The point is that in 25 years the concept of celebrity has degenerated into parody. Borderline cretins with fake boobs and bulging wallets wander the streets of Los Angeles pursued by hordes of shutter-clicking parasites in self- reinforcing cycle of publicity whetting the appetite for more publicity. Glance about the magazines at the supermarket check-out line – consider yourself on the cutting edge of pop culture if one face in ten makes an impression. You have some NBC reality star’s heartbreaking split from a dude who plays a brooding werewolf on the CW while a breasty gal from a show on MTV beckons from the cover of Cosmo, promising to disclose her patented sex tips – tips that can probably be summed up with the words “Anyone, anytime, anywhere that might help my career in any way.” The original “We are the World” was an event; this one is a mere occurrence. And the reasons are not hard to see. We have celebrities who do not deserve celebration. We have a public grown weary of the shameless antics and craven pandering of the celebrity culture. Who actually believes that most of the participants want anything more from this recording session than a close-up on Entertainment Tonight before they slink back across to the far side of the velvet rope? Or perhaps this really isn’t a just another ploy designed to feed the fame machine. Maybe these “stars” do care about the people of Haiti. After all, if there’s one thing that the name “Snoop Dogg” is synonymous with, it’s caring about others.
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Citizens should always lock ________ vehicles and secure valuables in the trunk.
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