Why can't the government just leave jobs to the most qualified instead of trying to meet a quota?

Question

http://www.daytondailynews.com/n/content/oh/story/news/local/2008/09/11/ddn091108dojweb.html

This is a letter I sent to the Department of Justice as I had a guarantee slot on the police department as long as I passed the exam but now they are on a hiring freeze because of a law suit

To Whom It May Concern,

I had a possibility and a good chance at getting in with the Dayton, OH police department and now due to a ignorant law suit my dreams of being a civilian officer are crushed. This is American isn't this where dreams are suppose to come true. I did everything I was told I was suppose to do to make it into a civilian law enforce profession. I am a prior service military member and I feel it is discriminative to me because I am white male even though technically we all are from immigrant backgrounds unless you are 100 percent Native American. I have the required experience Bachelors of Science in Criminal Justice 3.53GPA and Honorable USAF Military Police and yet no one will hire me because the color of my skin doesn't match their quota. Why aren't veterans consider a minority or a quota of hires that need to be met? I have been looking for work for two months now and still haven't found anything because of quotas. I understand in diversity however if someone is more qualified then another I think that purely because he doesn't fill the minority quota should be the last thing on the list. Affirmative Action should be abolished we just elected a Black President and had a woman as a potential Vice President if she was Elected this proves that a minority or a woman can do anything if they set their mind to it.

Police officers need to be able to write coherent, detailed arrest reports. Whenever a city police force has dumbed down it’s recruitment test in response to the bias charge, the result has been city and district attorneys who have to drop criminal charges against defendants because the arresting officer’s report was so badly written as to be incoherent. What is the USDOJ going to say when the families of black murder victims start a hue and cry because the blacks who murdered their loved ones go free? Didn’t this already happen somewhere?

Does the USDOJ want the Dayton police force to emulate the enlisted ranks of the US Army, which has set a bottom IQ limit of 85 for enlistment? A person with an IQ of 85 is functionally illiterate. He/she cannot decipher a bus schedule, calculate a tip at a restaurant, use logic to build an argument, or plan ahead for the future. Are borderline retarded police officers what the citizens of Dayton want between them and anarchy?

Answer 1

Because the liberal socialists have taken over and are running amok.

Answer 2

First- Veterans do get affirmative action benefits in a lot of fields(which they should)

http://www.dol.gov/dol/topic/hiring/veterans.htm

http://www.opm.gov/veterans/dvaap.asp



Second- Plenty of black people can't find work either. In case you haven't noticed the economy isn't doing so well.



Third- What does Obama have to do with Affirmative Action? A person who doesn't hire minorities wouldn't vote for him. There are more non-racist people than racist people so he was able to get elected



Don't get me wrong I hope you can find work. Still almost 575,000 people have been lost their jobs last month so you are by no means alone.

Answer 3

The time is right to consult your attorney.



Quotas have been inappropriate in implementing affirmative action since the Supreme Court decision in Bakke v University of California almost 30 years ago. If you have applied for a job at an organization that uses racial quotas, have your attorney address this matter.



The race of any officeholder is immaterial to the need for actual affirmative action, since its purpose is to address the effects of racial or other unlawful discrimination. Have those behaviors ceased with the election of one person?



Quotas are not a part of affirmative action, except in the minds of uneducated managers.

Answer 4

Wow....Dude...if you can't get 'on the cops' close to home there are thousands of other police departments that are looking for YOU! If you're getting skunked out by those pesky 'blacks', take a trip up to the Dakotas..north or south....nary a black guy to be found. Or Idaho or Utah or even Arizona. The Arizona town I live in with over 50,000 people has no more than a dozen African-Americans and NONE OF THEM ARE COPS. Quit 'yer belly achin'.....don't let the disadvantage of being WHITE hold 'ya back!

Answer 5

There is no affirmative action anymore. if you are not getting a job, it is on you.



A lot of people are having trouble getting a job these day, we are in a recession.



I'm black and always score in the top 90% and I'm ex military and I've had trouble getting a government job.



If what you are saying was true, I would have a goverment job right now.



Some times it is who you know not what color you are.

Answer 6

"yet no one will hire me because the color of my skin doesn't match their quota."



You've got grounds for a civil rights lawsuit.



Racial reverse discrimination.

Answer 7

Hey I agree with you 110 percent. Give'em hell.

Answer 8

As democrats/liberals that question

Answer 9

Obama is a UAW lackie...just send him money...that's all he wants.