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09/12/2008: "Dayton dumbs it down AGAIN!"

The dying city of Dayton, OH once again finds itself having to lower its standards to satisfy diversity quotas.

Its scary to contemplate the possibility that the people who are expected to stop crime in your neighborhoods, and put out fires that are burning down homes don't need to have the education, training, certifications, or ability to pass a written test required for these jobs. It should be an insult to blacks and other minorities when the only way they can get hired is due to the employer's need to fill a quota based on race.

Currently in Dayton, OH, of the more than 300 employees in the fire department, 10 % are female, 6% are black, and 2% are listed as "other". Out of the 421 police officers, 35 are black. This isn't because of discrimination based on race, as much as the Department of Justice would have you believe. Fewer blacks apply for these jobs. Fewer blacks are able to pass the written test required to get a job fighting crime.

Randy Beane, president of the Dayton Fraternal Order of Police, doesn't agree with the DOJ's findings and plans to oppose them.

"We believe the test is a valid test, that it is legal," Beane said. "We are not anti-diversity. That is the farthest thing from the truth."

"There is a shortage of minorities taking the test, so the sample wasn't large enough to draw a correlation between failure rate and the testing instrument," Beane said. "We're having a tough time getting anyone to take the tests. Not everyone wants to run into a burning building. Not everyone wants to face gunfire."

So what is the solution according to the Department of Justice, who went to Dayton over 2 years ago to gather data on police officer and firefighter diversity? Lower the standards so that minorities can get in on these jobs they are not qualified for!

"At question is how Dayton's written civil service exam has impacted blacks who wanted to be police officers."

In non politically correct [truthful and factual] language, Dayton's written civil service exam is too hard for blacks to pass. As a result, fewer blacks make it into the ranks of the police.

"The Fire Department issue reflects a policy of requiring recruits to have advanced certifications in order to be considered for hire."

What this means is, there are those who believe you don't need to go to any kind of school be it college, trade school, or training for certification such as firefighting or EMT certification to be able to take the test and get these jobs.

"The DOJ wants the city to stop using its current written exam for police officers and drop heightened qualifications for firefighters, which has already been done; and implement new practices to screen and select police and firefighter applicants that comply with federal law."

To add fuel to the fire, according to a lawsuit that has been filed against Dayton, OH:

"The city also must "make-whole" relief including job offers, retroactive seniority and back pay with interest to blacks who have been harmed by the city's use of the police exam and advanced firefighter certifications."

So not only is Dayton, OH going to be forced to dumb it down again so blacks can get into jobs they are not qualified for while passing over qualified white applicants, tax payer dollars are going to be used to pay black individuals who wanted these jobs but couldn't get them due to their lack of ability to pass a written test or make it through training. Did you notice? WITH INTEREST! AND they will be offered jobs and given retroactive seniority?

Is this going to be good for a city that already has one foot in the grave and another on a banana peel?

Is this a good thing for blacks? What does this tell the black community as a whole? It tells blacks that everyone knows they don't have the smarts required to get jobs like everyone else is expected to. It tells blacks that they don't have to work as hard or know as much to get a job. It tells the world that Dayton, OH and America as a whole wants to keep it's black population working, but dumb.

If you are black, are you happy being viewed this way?

If you are white, are you going to remain silent while you continue to get passed over for jobs you are fully qualified for, by others who are not?

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Replies: 2 Comments

on Thursday, September 18th, Whitey said

yeah thats a real solution. allow people who are already unable to succeed become even dumber. not the kind of city I would want to live in. and I sure as fuck don't want some dumbass who cant pass a test try to put out a fire in my house, or start an iv on me or my family in an emergency.

on Tuesday, September 30th, Ann said

Here is the latest update to this horrible story just posted today:

The U.S. Department of Justice has filed a lawsuit against the City of Dayton, alleging the city has discriminated against blacks through its hiring practices for police officers and firefighters.

The lawsuit, filed Friday, Sept. 26, has been expected since Dayton Law Director Pat Bonfield received an Aug. 29 letter from the justice department. The city was notified about the lawsuit on Monday.

Bonfield was not available for comment Tuesday morning. The city has 20 days to file an answer to the filed complaint.

The lawsuit states that the city's civilian labor force is about 36.8 percent black. Of the 440 police officers in all ranks, only 9.1 percent is black.

Only 2.4 percent of the city's 332 firefighters are black, the lawsuit states.

At issue is a written test the city gives to applicants. Those who pass are placed on an eligibility list in descending rank order of test scores.

The city set the passing score for the 2006 police test at 70 percent. The pass rates for whites was 68.1 percent, while the pass rate for blacks was 28.7 percent.

"While African Americans constituted 16.2 percent of all applicants who took that examination, African Americans constituted only 7.6 percent of the applicants who passed that examination �" a result that reduced the proportion of African American applicants under consideration by approximately 50 percent," the lawsuit states.

Another issue is the new classification of "professional firefighter," which the city started using in 2004 instead of "firefighter recruit." At that time, the city started requiring applicants to have Emergency Medical Technician-Basic and Firefighter 1 and II certifications to take the test.

Before 2004, applicants obtained these certifications after hire at the city's firefighter academy.

As a result, the lawsuit states, the number of black firefighter applicants dropped from 25 percent in 2002 to 6 percent in 2005.

Neither the test nor the heightened qualifications are "job related for the position in question and consistent with business necessity" and do not meet the requirements of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the lawsuit states.

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