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by all means, let's continue lowering the standards. Oh, and we don't need cops to be citizens to police the citizenry.
https://www.themarshallproject.org/2...-20190214-1273
A growing number of law enforcement agencies will now accept applicants who admit past drug use or have arrest records for low-level offenses, who lack college degrees ... (who aren't citizens)
“I don’t think someone’s citizenship is indicative in any way of someone’s suitability to be a police officer,” said Police Chief Tom Manger in Montgomery County, Maryland...
Jurisdiction by jurisdiction, those barriers are being challenged, often successfully. ...
Massachusetts is also one of several states where women are challenging physical requirements that impede the hiring and retention of female officers. Critics argue the rules have little to do with the demands of policing.
The state requires women to traverse the same arduous obstacle course as men. The fail rate for women was 20 percent compared to a rate of 2 percent for men, according to a data analysis by news station WCVB. ...
Tennessee in 2015 amended its laws to open police recruitment to non-citizens with military service, after the police chief in Nashville rallied legislators. "Having a cross-section of Nashville serving on the police department enhances our knowledge and appreciation of cultures so we can better serve our population,” said then Nashville Police Chief Steve Anderson after the law was changed.
(No. You can better serve the population by expecting everyone living within your jurisdiction to follow and abide by the same rules, including yourselves). We've seen what "understanding and appreciating" cultures that refuse to assimilate into an American mindset does. Special allowances for them and citizens gets the shaft. )
Opponents of allowing permanent residents to join police ranks say they don’t want to empower green-card holders to detain U.S. citizens. They also question whether an immigrant, who didn’t go through the naturalization process, could fairly practice constitutional policing. “If you want to become a cop, become a citizen,” said former Illinois U.S. Rep. Joe Walsh who is now a nationally syndicated conservative radio host.
Good. Yes. This is correct.
The right of states to restrict police recruiting based on citizenship rests on a 1978 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that upheld the New York State Police’s refusal to accept the application of a legal permanent resident named Edmund Foley. “Police officials are clothed with authority to exercise an almost infinite variety of discretionary powers,” the court ruled. “A state may therefore confine the performance of this important public responsibility to those who are citizens.” ...
Good. Yes. This is correct.
In 2016, the Obama administration fined the Denver Sheriff Department $10,000 for incorrectly advertising that citizenship was a requirement for a deputy position. Colorado is one of a handful of states that allow non-citizens to apply for local law enforcement jobs. As part of the settlement, Denver agreed to track down green-card holders who had been passed over for a job and reconsider them for employment.
Sigh. Yeah. Now look at Denver. And so it goes. The absolute deterioration of a once strong nation.
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Originally Posted by Green Arrow
