According to a Sunday report from the Daily Wire, the administration’s Department of Justice apparently has its priorities in the right place, because it’s recently “undertaken a slew of lawsuits against local police and fire departments alleging that it is racist to require hires entrusted with public safety to know basic math.”
The latest lawsuit was filed on Oct. 11 against South Bend, Indiana, where the examination to become a police officer had a “disparate impact” against black and female applicants.
According to the lawsuit, “South Bend uses a written examination that discriminates against black applicants and a physical fitness test that discriminates against female applicants.”
Yes, apparently, expecting someone to be smart or strong enough to be a police officer is racist or sexist. The latter is a matter of nature, the former is not. However, as the Daily Wire’s Luke Rosiak pointed out, that was just one of the lawsuits, which allege basically any kind of written test to qualify someone to be a firefighter or police officer — no matter how straightforward — creates a “disparate impact” if there are different failure rates among white and non-white minority applicants, even if the majority of applicants, regardless of race, still pass
“Also this month, the DOJ forced Maryland State Police to pay $2.75 million to women who were barred from being officers because they couldn’t pass physical fitness exams testing, for example the ability to run quickly, and blacks who couldn’t pass a written test,” Rosiak noted.
“The test that the DOJ says is racist is designed to ensure that cops are at least as smart as an elementary school student and can serve residents by, for example, adding up the total value of stolen property when items were stolen valued at $400, $40, $1,500, and $100
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