Mdbt, was that, by any chance, in PA.?
I am a former police officer (city department) and attended the PA. State Police Academy in 1976 (I think!).
Although I was a "municipal" officer, we had a cadet class going the same time as the very first "racially correct" class of troopers.
A (black) judge in Philadelphia, named Green, had ordered the state police to have only 50% white, male maximum per class, until HE concluded the department was diversely correct.
The lowest test score for a white male, in the first class, was in the very high 90's. They had to go down into the 60's in the minorities.
The female applicants had to do something like 40% less pushups, pull ups. Jump less high, run slower, etc., than the males.
Daily and weekly tests were given on the classroom topics and if your average score fell below a set point (mid 70's, if I remember correctly), you were let go.
This was the rule for YEARS. BUT, in this new DIVERSE class, if you were a minority and your average fell, they had the instructors stay over, evenings and weekends, to try to get your scores up to lowest standards.
That first DIVERSELY correct class graduated, and left some of the cadets who STILL could not get to minimum standards behind, to attend the next cadet class.
I am all for equality- but it should be EQUAL!!!!!!!!
