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Originally Posted by ForteCash
(Post 11390434)
My brother in law wanted to be a highway patrolman, and he actually scored too high on his tests to be one... They want dumb people who wont question laws they have to enforce. :2 cents:
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yeah, right. Chances are there was some other reason he didn't get hired and this is what he told you. Some of my best friends are cops. These are guys I have known since I was in 8th grade. I help the departments they work for do training (I'm the bad guy in scenarios) and I hang out with a lot of these guys on a regular basis. I've seen how police departments work first hand. Most police departments now hire two types of people to be cops. 1. You have some kind of background that is desirable like military or criminal justice or 2. you have a bachelors degree in some kind of desirable area like criminal justice or pre-law or public safety.
You have to go through interviews and take a test. Typically you take the test and if you score well enough you do an interview This interview is often a panel interview. If you score well on both you have to go through another interview (this one typically with the police chief or in big agencies they have officers in charge of hiring). Then the department makes their decision. Often times a department will have more people that apply for the job, pass then test and get through the interviews than they could hire. They may find themselves with 10 qualified candidates and only 1 or 2 openings. If they have 1 opening they pick their top choice and they go through psyche evaluation. If they pass that they do a background check and if they pass that they are hired, if not they move to their second choice. In many departments there are people that score really high on the test, but do terribly in the interview or can't pass the background test or something else. Case in point. Another friend of mine applied when a opening was announced at the police department where a couple of my friends work. He scored very high on the test, but in the interview he did terrible. He bascially came off like he was doing them a favor by applying for a job. He seemed arrogant and they didn't like that. So after the test he was one of the top candidates. After the interview he was on the bottom of the list.
This is not to say that there are not stupid "thugs" out there that are cops. A good example is one of the guys my buddy works with. He became a reserve cop and after 8 years of doing that he took and passed the test and they ended up hiring him. They felt comfortable with him because they had known him for a while. As soon as he got the uniform on he became a total arrogant prick and has had several complaints filed against him. He tried to get a job in a different city and couldn't pass the psych evaluation for that city, but where he is at now can't fire him because of the union. They basically have to wait until he really fucks up.
I've always said there are three types of people that become cops. 1. A person that really is legitimately interested doing good things for the community. They want to help people and want to help make a community a good place to live. 2. People that do it because it is a good job that pays well and has great benefits and once you are in it is really hard for them to get you out. And 3. people that have major self-esteem issues and they need to have authority over others to help them feel good about themselves. Of course people can be a little bit of all of these. My friends work with people that graduated at the top of their class and scored in the top 1% on the test statewide. So, getting back to my point, I think your buddy scored well, then fucked up in the interview or something like that and just told you he scored to high because that sounds better than then the truth. They don't choose to not hire you because you scored to high. If someone told him that, they were being polite to him and not telling him the real reason. |
