POLICE DEPARTMENT’S LACK OF DIVERSITY. May 25, 2017
More potential pseudo racial divisiveness beginning to show signs of bubbling up.
TR today: “City seeks diversity in police department”.
Chief Nathaniel Clark, familiar with personal racial discord as a former Chief of Police in another city, offered the remark: “Problems facing the P.D.—a lack of diversity and the struggles to recruit & retain officers and to afford equipment”.
In the absence of transparency in the FSM city government, what the Chief says may or may not be true.
As I took my eyes off the article they fell on another article describing the city government’s egregious conduct literally throwing away $52,920 per month on a non-existent recycling system compliments of the City Manager, Mayor & Directors’ cover-ups and incompetency. There’s your funding Chief Clark. However, no specifics regarding what equipment the Chief deems necessary.
Ahhh, the absence of diversity. There must be local reasons: lack of interest, qualifications, experience, background, merit, competition, civic pride, education, etc. etc.
Enter Director Tracy Pennartz, accompanied by teardrops & whipped cream Political Correctness. She reels off stats dealing with numbers, sex, rank, and race. Pennartz, in her over zealousness to install diversity apparently without standards made this senseless statement “Students graduating from high school said, ‘when they don’t see people like themselves in the PD, etc. it’s hard to attract them”. Is this not in diametrical opposition to what the multiculturalists espouse in showing a tinge of racial overtones? If they don’t apply and qualify they aren’t going to see people like themselves.
Director Good complained re the lack of minorities in city government…if minorities don’t seek office through the proper elective process the demographics are not going to change. The time to terminate quotas, set-asides and affirmative action has long since passed their useful stage. If you are not qualified, you should not now be hired using any of the above 3 programs as a criteria, and if you are qualified & competitive you will and must be hired.
Lots of whys should be asked by the Chief and Directors Good & Pennartz. And from the City Manager, Board & Mayor, bestow on citizens honestly & transparency.
Let merit, competition, and achievement prevail—it is the prescription for American success.
Joe McCutchen
arkansasfreedom.net