The U.S. Department of Justice sued the Baltimore County government Tuesday, alleging that a written test for police officer recruits was unfairly biased against African American applicants.
African American applicants failed the test at a greater rate than white applicants, resulting in fewer African Americans being hired as police officers, the Department of Justice wrote in the lawsuit. The suit, filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Baltimore, did not include the pass rates, but said the difference was “statistically significant.”
The exams tested reading, grammar, logic and other skills that the suit alleges are not related to the job of being a police officer or police cadet
Who writes the police reports if the officer has no reading or grammar skills. Thought using logic would be kind of important for a police officer.
African American applicants failed the test at a greater rate than white applicants, resulting in fewer African Americans being hired as police officers, the Department of Justice wrote in the lawsuit. The suit, filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Baltimore, did not include the pass rates, but said the difference was “statistically significant.”
The exams tested reading, grammar, logic and other skills that the suit alleges are not related to the job of being a police officer or police cadet
Who writes the police reports if the officer has no reading or grammar skills. Thought using logic would be kind of important for a police officer.