The race to the bottom - police recruits

From NBC Chicago:

Police May Scrap Entrance Exam: Report
The Chicago Police Department is seriously considering scrapping the police entrance exam, sources tell Fran Spielman.

Dropping the exam would bolster minority hiring and avert legal battles, according to one source, while others confirm that the exam could be scrapped to open the process to as many people as possible.

However, the lack of an exam would make Chicago the lone major city without one, and experts contend that the exam is integral to eliminating unqualified applicants.

They should show some stones and not give in to some vocal nitwits. The firefighters of New Haven, CT had the same exact problem -- the incoming white and asian recruits placed a lot higher than the incoming black recruits and the black recruits filed suit to change the exam. The problem with them is that the fire department had already spent significant effort to minimize the racial profiling of the exam and this suit went up to the US Supreme Court which ruled in favor of the New Haven Firefighters. A shame that the Chicago Police department is caving to this sort of mau-mauing.