[ExI] police etc.

[SR Ballard]

I mean I have interviews, they do background checks, and run half-assed personality tests. And people fail those steps.

I’m saying those are jobs where I get paid $9/hr. I don’t know or care what the interviewer makes but I can promise you they don’t have a PhD. 

SR Ballard

> On Jun 18, 2020, at 9:39 AM, William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
> 
> 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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