Oh noes! New York is having a hard time finding Diversity (All Hail Diversity!) hires. In other words, they are having a hard time hiring black people since Diversity (All Hail Diversity!) is simply the new name for affirmative action. (Thanks to Scott for this story.)

New York police commissioner says bringing more non-white officers into force is challenging because many African American men have criminal records

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Originally, I thought this was gonna be a story about how blacks couldn’t pass the entrance exam so they had to simplify it. That’s what usually happens when a company can not find blacks who qualify. That happened to IBM back in the 70’s when they had to quit giving aptitude tests because they amounted to discrimination. The discrimination being against people who couldn’t qualify for the job. I’ve recounted the story about when I attended FE Basic in 1978 we had three people who flunked out in the first six weeks. one was black, one was Vietnamese, and one was a woman. All three would have flunked an aptitude test, the black and the female because they had no knowledge of electronics or aptitude for data processing and the Vietnamese dude because he had a language problem. All three were affirmative action hires.

“We have a significant population gap among African American males because so many of them have spent time in jail and, as such, we can’t hire them,” Bratton said in an interview with the Guardian.

Police departments, responding to widespread protests against several high-profile police killings of black men, are boosting efforts to recruit more non-white officers. But budget restrictions, strained relations between police and minority communities and, according to Bratton, a history of indiscriminate policing tactics that disproportionately target black and Latino men complicate the department’s goal of racial parity.

Bratton blamed the “unfortunate consequences” of an explosion in “stop, question and frisk” incidents that caught many young men of color in the net by resulting in them being given a summons for a minor misdemeanor. As a result, Bratton said, the “population pool [of eligible non-white officers] is much smaller than it might ordinarily have been”.

Yep! Blame the “stop and frisk” policy, not the fact that so many black men are criminals.

The application process to join the NYPD includes, among other things, a complete criminal background check.

How dare they run background checks. Right off that bat that discriminates against black dudes. Racists!

Convicted felons are automatically disqualified from the NYPD applicant pool, as well as anyone guilty of a domestic violence charge or who has been dishonorably discharged from the military.

Summonses, however, do not automatically disqualify a candidate, though they are taken into account during the application process. For example, a summons for disorderly conduct would not preclude a candidate from being accepted into the force, but repeated convictions for an offense that demonstrates “disrespect for the law” could result in disqualification.

Yeah! They should wait until they become cops before showing “disrespect for the law”.

The controversial stop-and-frisk policy was struck down in 2013 by a federal judge, who called the practice a “policy of indirect racial profiling”. Judge Shira A Scheindlin found that the program led officers to routinely stop “blacks and Hispanics who would not have been stopped if they were white”.

But see, the reason they targeted blacks and Hispanics was that the majority of crimes are committed by blacks and Hispanics. For example, in the last ten years in St. Louis blacks have committed over 80% of the violent crimes while only making up about 50% of the population. And I know liberals will refuse to admit it but stop and frisk actually cut the crime rate in New York City. Look at how crime is rising in New York right now.

But critics say Bratton – who helped shrink the widespread use of stop-and-frisk -is partly, if not ultimately, responsible for the relative paucity of eligible non-white recruits.

“It is a net that he set out for them,” said Rochelle Bilal, vice-chair of the National Black Police Association and a former Philadelphia police officer. “If [Bratton] didn’t stop people for nothing, he might have a bigger pool to hire from.”

And more crooked cops right off the bat. Why wait for them to get corrupt when you can hire them that way?

Despite his repudiation of stop-and-frisk, Bratton still believes broken windows policing – a crime-fighting strategy of enforcing low-level crimes to stop offenders from committing more serious ones in the future – is indispensable to keeping the city safe.

It worked under Giuliani and Bloomberg. DeBlasio is bringing back the bad old days under Dinkins.

It wouldn’t surprise me if the liberals forced the NTPD to quit doing background checks so they will be able to hire more blacks. After all, nothing is more important than Diversity (All Hail Diversity!).