From ignored dis-qualifiers to psychological overrides, the NYPD is under fire as 31 officers face termination—and New Yorkers experience the consequences of failed leadership
Lt. John Macari's statement about the lowering of hiring standards has been happening across the country for years and ramped up "post Floyd" as we call it. The trickle down of social issues and politics emerging into law changes and changes to police policies were the last straw for experienced officers who may have stayed on for another 5+ years but cut it short to retire due to all the BS that made the job more difficult and ineffective. Existing officers can't sell the job to others with confidence and the generation who is at age to become officers do not have the life experience or service above self mindset to be effective police officers. It is a crappy perfect storm leading to desperation in hiring AND the unrelenting political pressure to "transform" policing by way of equity and diversity (which is no longer limited to just gender or race based hiring).
I think allowing a lower standard of officer is all part of a larger plan to purposely make our police departments in big cities a mess of incompetent cops having big failures to publicly feed the narrative of reforming policing into something completely different. In short, the same people pushing the incompetent hiring will be the same people calling for reform and change across the country in how policing is done when this comes to roost.
Just curious why NYPD is not in trouble with their state equivalent of POST who sets the background standards for things like criminal convictions, drug use, etc. If they were not following the peace officer standards for hiring, why is the state AG not stepping in?
Thank you @lawtalk for your insightful comment. NYPD is in illegal violation of their state standards and training (POST) and that may underscore the brass being suddenly in a hurry to can these officers.
Pre-Floyd we lost our best recruiters: multi-generational police families decided around 2014 that their kids were not going to be on the leadership betrayal conveyer belt. Consider that: risky life-threatening jobs that they were willing to see their sons and daughters enter, but cowardly management was the real danger.
If you read The Courageous Police Leader: A Survival Guide for Combating Cowards, Chaos & Lies by Dr. Travis Yates @travisyates you won't believe that it was published before George Floyd. He, in fact, addresses some Minneapolis issues in that book back then.
I agree that there is a plan to make policing weaker. Reform is a smoke screen to insert DEI.
Lt. John Macari's statement about the lowering of hiring standards has been happening across the country for years and ramped up "post Floyd" as we call it. The trickle down of social issues and politics emerging into law changes and changes to police policies were the last straw for experienced officers who may have stayed on for another 5+ years but cut it short to retire due to all the BS that made the job more difficult and ineffective. Existing officers can't sell the job to others with confidence and the generation who is at age to become officers do not have the life experience or service above self mindset to be effective police officers. It is a crappy perfect storm leading to desperation in hiring AND the unrelenting political pressure to "transform" policing by way of equity and diversity (which is no longer limited to just gender or race based hiring).
I think allowing a lower standard of officer is all part of a larger plan to purposely make our police departments in big cities a mess of incompetent cops having big failures to publicly feed the narrative of reforming policing into something completely different. In short, the same people pushing the incompetent hiring will be the same people calling for reform and change across the country in how policing is done when this comes to roost.
Just curious why NYPD is not in trouble with their state equivalent of POST who sets the background standards for things like criminal convictions, drug use, etc. If they were not following the peace officer standards for hiring, why is the state AG not stepping in?
Thank you @lawtalk for your insightful comment. NYPD is in illegal violation of their state standards and training (POST) and that may underscore the brass being suddenly in a hurry to can these officers.
Pre-Floyd we lost our best recruiters: multi-generational police families decided around 2014 that their kids were not going to be on the leadership betrayal conveyer belt. Consider that: risky life-threatening jobs that they were willing to see their sons and daughters enter, but cowardly management was the real danger.
If you read The Courageous Police Leader: A Survival Guide for Combating Cowards, Chaos & Lies by Dr. Travis Yates @travisyates you won't believe that it was published before George Floyd. He, in fact, addresses some Minneapolis issues in that book back then.
I agree that there is a plan to make policing weaker. Reform is a smoke screen to insert DEI.