In the late 60s and early 70s, the federal government put minorities applicants into positions there were under-qualified for, calling for "quotas" and "affirmative action" to remedy past discrimination. While multiple SCOTUS rulings have limited the use of the process, it's still exist, especially in certain blue states. Case in point, the former state of California, now the People's Democratic Republic of Kalifornia.
The city of Los Angeles, the second largest city in the country, is now critically short on cops:
Los Angeles, operating with more than 650 fewer officers than before the pandemic, has "downsized its human trafficking, narcotics and gun details," closed its animal cruelty unit, and decreased its homelessness outreach teams by 80%, AP reported.
LA Mayor Bass calls to root out ‘right-wing extremist’ police, signals lowering the bar for new recruits
Bass also stated she is seeking to tackle the ongoing staff shortages in the department
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass called to remove "obstacles" for new police recruits and pledged to root out officers with ties to "right-wing domestic extremist organizations."
...Another provision in the goals summary seeks to "identify, discipline, and/or terminate officers associated with right-wing domestic extremist organizations" using data from the Justice Department. LAPD must report back with progress on this provision in August..."We [LAPPL] think it ought to be right-wing, left-wing, foreign and domestic," Saggau said. "We think that there are more organizations that members of law enforcement should not be associated with, other than the narrow group that was listed in that document."
Bass also called for updated training measures to comply with the "heightened standard on use of deadly force required," the expansion of the Mental Evaluation Unit and the System-wide Mental Assessment Team, as well as the implementation of efforts to reduce the number of officer-involved shootings.
The department is looking at rehiring 200 recently retire officers, To call this a stopgap measure is giving it too much credit. It was only ten years ago LAPD had 10,000 officers. A recent academy class had all of 23 cadets in it. It now has 9, 200 officers, with the attrition hitting 600 a year. Good luck getting that up to 9, 200, or 10, 000.
Now you would think this was an issue where the city needs to look at recruiting and retaining high quality cops, insure they understate the city supports them, and will not throw them under the bus.
That is a very poor assumption. The new mayor of our second largest city sees the biggest issue in policing to be...right wing cops. Not to mention, police showing the Thin Blue Line flag. No, you can't make this up.
Bass is looking to remove "obstacles" for police recruits who fail to initially qualify for training as a means of further diversifying the LAPD, according to a summary of her public safety goals obtained by Fox News Digital – but police union leaders are questioning the move.
Bass' summary of goals for police reform includes a list of provisions as well as dates by which the department must report back regarding progress. One provision says a deputy mayor will work in conjunction with a "third party" to "evaluate the personnel process and identify obstacles to entry for recruits who fail to qualify for training."
OK. Ms. Bass, you have standards there for a reason. To see if your candidate can handle the basics of being a cop, mush less higher standards for speciality branches (e.g., SWAT).
"We think that particular provision or that goal or that idea is dangerous," Tom Saggau, Los Angeles Police Protective League (LAPPL) spokesperson, told Fox News Digital.
"If you have police officers that can't make minimum qualifications or attained minimum standards, for instance, there are recruits that have been in the academy that just can't score the minimum requirements for a physical fitness test," he added. "One hundred is the maximum score, 50 is acceptable. There are folks that are scoring under 10. That's just dangerous."
The provision states that recommendations to remove any obstacles will be taken into consideration, especially with those in relation to "ethnic groups disproportionately left out of new officer training."
Saggau said the provision calls for the lowering of standards within the police department as new hires who did not initially qualify during training are shown not to "possess the mental fitness or the physical fitness ability to be a police officer..."
Me thinks quotas are making their way back in. Guess what will happen when you lower the standards to bring more people into law enforcement. People get killed. See officers Arthur Carbonneau in Houston or Antonette Frank in New Orleans
First thing I would ask is what "right wing extremist" organization are you talking about. The Boy Scouts of America? The Catholic Church? The NRA or CSRA? You may want to see if any of the officers are supporters of domestic terrorist groups like Antifa or BLM.
You make cops think twice or thrice about using deadly force, people will get killed. Cops. Or the cops will simply not engage, and other civilians will get killed. This woman obviously rose to the mayors office on the back of the George Floyd riots, and she has no clue.
I recall speaking with a high school friend who was hired by the LA Sheriff's Office in 1990 (?). In the early 2000s I caught up with him on MySpace, and he told me how much he loved LA, got married, three kids, everything was great. Well, early 2010s I caught up with him again on Facebook, and his attitude had changed a bit. "Mike, got one more kid to get out of college, and I'm so the hell out of here..." And that was before George Floyd.
God helps those cops in LA, and the people of LA. It's already bad. It's about to get a lot worse.
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