Court OKs Barring High IQs for Cops

[fisharmor]

That is how I was coached when I was young. If you wanted a civil service job you didn't want to do to good on the test. At the time the theory was that when they hired people that tested high, they got bored with the job sooner and moved on.

And this is precisely what is in the original article.
The police don't want people who are too smart because they will get bored and move on.
This whole thread is reading something into this which I'm not sure exists.

We're not talking about a single opponent here. It's an entire system. And when that system says something, we have a choice: either believe it means what it means at face value, or become a tinfoil-hat-wearing conspiracy theorist.

Is it possible that every police department is conspiring to keep intelligent people out because they want them not to question orders?
Absolutely not. Following orders without question is easy. They do it the same way the military does: create camaraderie in the ranks, and tell those ranks if they ever disobey orders they'll be out of the group, and they'll make it more difficult to find work elsewhere.
You don't need a massive conspiracy in place to do that.

Of course this cuts a different way, too. If any of you are still confused as to the nature of police, you just need to read the official releases from them every time they gun down a 105 year old WWII vet, or kill a dog, or beat up a homeless guy.

They followed official procedure. No problem with the officer(s) conduct.

They've said themselves, ad nauseum at this point, that the entire point of the job is to beat up homeless guys and murder old people and dogs and get away with it.

We need to stop talking about how stupid the people doing it are, and start talking about how stupid the people are who can't see that this is the sum of what police are for.

[PaulConventionWV]

Not in this case. Intelligence is one of the qualifications. Score too low, and they don't want you because you lack the minimum qualification for intelligence to do the job. His problem was not that he didn't meet the minimum qualification score on the test, but that he exceeded it by so much. So yes, he was overqualified.

But a person as smart as he is should know that he's applying for a police job, not an engineering job at Google, and should have intentionally gotten some answers wrong on purpose.

If intelligence is one of the qualifications for cop, then what job isn't it a qualification for? What do you mean "In this case"? According to your reasoning, intelligence is a qualification for any job. Being over-qualified means you have a lot on your resume, and very rarely do people put their IQ on their resume unless they really don't want to get the job.

[CCTelander]

Bump for current relevance.