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Also, the standards for Memphis PD were being down graded.

https://nypost.com/2023/01/28/memphis-cops-in-tyre-nichols-murder-hired-after-pd-relaxed-job-standards/?utm_source=NYPTwitter&utm_medium=SocialFlow&utm_campaign=SocialFlow

 

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At least two out of of five Memphis police officers  charged with murder in the fatal beatdown of Tyre Nichols joined the force after the department relaxed its hiring requirements.

Tadarrius Bean and Demetrius Haley both joined the Memphis Police Department in Aug. 2020, NBC News reported, more than two years after the department dramatically loosened the education qualifications to become an officer.

Recruits no longer needed an associate’s degree or 54 college credit hours to join the force, and could get by with five years of work experience, Action 5 reported. 

Loosening the required qualifications however means that the department is ultimately getting “less desirable” job candidates, Mike Alcazar, an adjunct professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and a retired NYPD detective, told The Post.


“They’re desperate. They want police officers,” Alcazar said. “They’re going through it, they check off some boxes, saying, ‘Ok, they’re good enough, get them on.”


As of Jan. 2022, MPD was down roughly 500 officers, the news outlet reported, citing the Memphis Police Association.

Last year, the department lowered its standards again for new recruits, nixing the timed physical ability test and cutting college education requirements from 54 credit hours to just 24.

The department also revealed that was even offering waivers for people who have been convicted on felony charges.

 

 

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Our CJAdmin (both cop side and corrections side) programs nose-dived, starting after Ferguson and continuing.  No one wants to be a cop in this political arena EXCEPT for the guys who are likely to end up being yet another reason for this political arena.

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3 hours ago, Steven P Allen said:

Our CJAdmin (both cop side and corrections side) programs nose-dived, starting after Ferguson and continuing.  No one wants to be a cop in this political arena EXCEPT for the guys who are likely to end up being yet another reason for this political arena.

No kidding!  We cannot get people to apply for jailer positions at all.  It is terrible, we are hiring people that ten, heck five years ago we would have NEVER even given an interview!  

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Memphis Chief was fired from Atlanta PD for covering up sexual abuse scandal involving a child molesting co-worker.  EEO Hire.   All you have to do is look at her, and see she is totally unqualified, and was hired purely to check some blocks....

 

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Dollars to doughnuts there are MANY officers in Memphis PD who are poor to utterly incompetent as these officers were. 

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New book about Oakland PD recently came out and I should give it a read. I’m a little surprised OPD isn’t talked about more, but it’s probably because they don’t kill civilians. Mildly understaffed, huge budget (they all make six figures easy), have basically refused to do anything about the high levels of crime in Oakland until it reaches murder level (which they’re actually good at following up on). Plus nobody takes them seriously after about twenty OPD were found out to be banging the same underaged prostitute (the Celeste Guap incident).


Before I lived here I was in a working class/hipster neighborhood in Brooklyn, where the cops had significant street presence, everybody knew them by name and said hi, they were competent and gave a shit, etc. Sorta like what Murph referred to before, they were very good at doing the boring unsexy stuff, and that made the locals trust them. Caveat is that the neighborhood was half Polish immigrants and half artsy types, neither of which were prone to violence vs getting drunk and passing out in somebody’s stairwell. :)

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Sump'ins up..."democracy now!?", just posted a story 'bout how the Feebs infiltrated the BLM movement. .

They even titled it  Cointelpro 2.

I have not read or listened to it,  cuz I value what sanity I have left

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16 hours ago, NickM said:

Sump'ins up..."democracy now!?", just posted a story 'bout how the Feebs infiltrated the BLM movement. .

They even titled it  Cointelpro 2.

I have not read or listened to it,  cuz I value what sanity I have left

Turn it into a drinking game. You take a shot every time they use a euphemistic phrase. Start with Budweiser or Miller light. You'll still be drunk, but it WILL stress flush your kidneys. 

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Something new: heard a Minneapolis PD officer was killed in the line of duty, but I couldn't find anything on my office's on line newsfeed, just the usual array of wrongful police shootings.

That and that the officer  was a 4 year vet, but was 34 years-old. 

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32 minutes ago, EchoFiveMike said:

Milwaukee PD.  S/F...Ken M

Ok. 34s kinda old for a rookie 

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I seriously thought it was another case of no sh#ts being given

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2 hours ago, NickM said:

Something new: heard a Minneapolis PD officer was killed in the line of duty, but I couldn't find anything on my office's on line newsfeed, just the usual array of wrongful police shootings.

That and that the officer  was a 4 year vet, but was 34 years-old. 

 

1 hour ago, NickM said:

Ok. 34s kinda old for a rookie 

An officer starting out at 30 years old is easily explained by 4 years of college and a 10-year enlistment.

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I was 34 when I joined the Sheriff's Office.  I had college, Army, and some civilian work before I did it.  I went to the Academy at 32.  

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12 minutes ago, Murph said:

I was 34 when I joined the Sheriff's Office.  I had college, Army, and some civilian work before I did it.  I went to the Academy at 32.  

Usually,  I'm used to them starting in the mid 20s--right out of college or the military 

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40 minutes ago, rmgill said:

The subject had been sentenced to probation for two hit-and-run crashes the day before. 

 

You don’t say… what are the odds of more than 5 previous felonies? 

 

That's what I found a bit of shock: A "probie" for a couple of hit n runs and he decides to shoot it out with the cops?

"Sump'ins"  wrong with that.

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I am betting more. I’d put money on it…

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