[ExI] police etc.

[William Flynn Wallace]

By 'that stuff' you mean interviewing, personality testing and
interpretation?  I have to express some doubt about the education of the
people who are doing it.  You don't get Ph. D.s for $9 an hour.  bill w

On Thu, Jun 18, 2020 at 9:35 AM SR Ballard via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> A call center that pays me $9/hr already does that stuff. No need to pay
> police departments excessive amounts.
>
> SR Ballard
>
> On Jun 18, 2020, at 8:55 AM, William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
> The guy featured in John's post should never have been hired as a police
> officer.  I am reading articles about how cops need to be trained
> differently and so on, and that is certainly needed.
>
> However, John's bully would have been caught rather easily if some
> background checks had been in place.  If not, the personality tests would
> have shown what kind of character he was, and then kept him out of police
> school altogether.
>
> I am not saying that personality tests are 100% accurate, but it would
> catch some of the bullies, racists, and so on.
>
> This is one reason I am saying that we need more money for the police
> dept., not less.  Hiring consultants, testing and interviewing, will take a
> good chunk of money, and probably at first only large cities will be able
> to do that.
>
> Does anyone know of a police dept. that does this sort of thing?  To me,
> this is a no-brainer.  Get bad guys in and no amount of training and
> education will change their character.
>
> bill w
>
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