DragonStryk72
03-15-2014, 04:44 AM
Court OKs Barring High IQs for Cops N E W L O N D O N, Conn., Sept. 8, 2000
A man whose bid to become a police officer was rejected after he scored too high on an intelligence test has lost an appeal in his federal lawsuit against the city.
The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York upheld a lower court’s decision that the city did not discriminate against Robert Jordan because the same standards were applied to everyone who took the test.
“This kind of puts an official face on discrimination in America against people of a certain class,” Jordan said today from his Waterford home. “I maintain you have no more control over your basic intelligence than your eye color or your gender or anything else.”
He said he does not plan to take any further legal action.
Jordan, a 49-year-old college graduate, took the exam in 1996 and scored 33 points, the equivalent of an IQ of 125. But New London police interviewed only candidates who scored 20 to 27, on the theory that those who scored too high could get bored with police work and leave soon after undergoing costly training.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/court-oks-barring-high-iqs-cops/story?id=95836
I just... the sheer degree of stupid involved in this is just mind-boggling. If there is a guy who is of high IQ, and willing to fight you in court for a decade to be able to work for you.... fucking hire him!
You know what happened when the Navy found out I had a high IQ? The recruiters were on me like a starving wolf on a lame deer to try and get me into advanced programs.
A man whose bid to become a police officer was rejected after he scored too high on an intelligence test has lost an appeal in his federal lawsuit against the city.
The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York upheld a lower court’s decision that the city did not discriminate against Robert Jordan because the same standards were applied to everyone who took the test.
“This kind of puts an official face on discrimination in America against people of a certain class,” Jordan said today from his Waterford home. “I maintain you have no more control over your basic intelligence than your eye color or your gender or anything else.”
He said he does not plan to take any further legal action.
Jordan, a 49-year-old college graduate, took the exam in 1996 and scored 33 points, the equivalent of an IQ of 125. But New London police interviewed only candidates who scored 20 to 27, on the theory that those who scored too high could get bored with police work and leave soon after undergoing costly training.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/court-oks-barring-high-iqs-cops/story?id=95836
I just... the sheer degree of stupid involved in this is just mind-boggling. If there is a guy who is of high IQ, and willing to fight you in court for a decade to be able to work for you.... fucking hire him!
You know what happened when the Navy found out I had a high IQ? The recruiters were on me like a starving wolf on a lame deer to try and get me into advanced programs.