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cheka.
20th November 2018, 09:16 PM
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https://www.policeone.com/lawsuit/articles/482136006-Lawsuit-Mich-LE-exam-discriminates-against-blacks/

Lawsuit: Mich. LE exam discriminates against blacks

The lawsuit alleges that two different civil service exams the state has used since 2014 violate a civil rights law

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By Paul Egan
Detroit Free Press

WAYNE COUNTY, Mich. — A Wayne County judge has certified a class-action lawsuit brought on behalf of more than 600 black applicants who wanted to work as state police or conservation officers but failed the required Michigan civil service exam.

The lawsuit alleges that two different civil service exams the state has used since 2014 — one of which remains in use today — violate the Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights Act and discriminate against black applicants, who have a higher failure rate than white applicants do.
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"The Michigan Civil Service Commission engaged in a pattern and practice of race discrimination in its hiring process through testing that had a disparate adverse impact on African-Americans," the suit alleges. "This illegal policy ... was furthered by command officers'/officials' failure to monitor the adverse impacts of the employment policies in place."

The suit doesn't allege the state intentionally discriminated — just that the exam produced racially disparate results in ways that weren't necessary to determine which test writers could best do the job. The suit alleges there are alternative tests that could screen applicants just as effectively without producing discriminatory results.

The commission — a bipartisan panel whose four members are appointed by the governor to oversee state hiring and employment issues — denied the allegations in a court filing.

Michigan State Police were under a federal consent order to increase minority hiring from 1977 through 1992, but a 2015 Detroit Free Press investigation showed that hiring of black troopers plummeted once the consent order was lifted in 1993, and the percentage of black troopers gradually dropped from close to 13 percent to about 5 percent. Black residents make up about 14 percent of Michigan's population, according to census numbers, and that percentage is much higher in major cities such as Detroit.

Police departments that lack diversity or don't reflect the racial makeup of the communities they police are seen as an aggravating factor in ongoing tensions between police agencies and urban communities around the United States.

Judge David Groner's Nov. 7 certification of the class-action suit can still be appealed until next week. The certification is not a ruling on the merits of the case, but is based partly on evidence the Michigan Civil Service Commission failed to monitor whether the exam it administers on behalf of state agencies was producing discriminatory results, as the suit alleges it was required to do.

For the exam used between Feb. 15, 2014, and Nov. 24, 2014, blacks had a fail rate of 77 percent, while whites had a fail rate of 51 percent, the suit alleges. That exam, which included an essay question portion, was replaced late in 2014 with a new exam, which is all multiple choice. For that exam, which remains in use today, blacks had a fail rate of between 4 and 5 percent, compared with a 1-percent fail rate for white test writers, the suit alleges.

The state Attorney General's Office, representing the Civil Service Commission, opposed the certification, arguing the exam is only a screening tool, passing it is not equivalent to a job offer, the commission doesn't require anyone to write it, and each state agency does its own hiring.

The suit doesn't specify which parts of the exams — designed by Washington-based Ergometrics & Applied Personnel Research, Inc. — are unfair to black applicants. The exams include sections related to human interaction, reading, and writing.

Leonard Mungo, the Detroit attorney representing the plaintiffs, said cultural differences can make certain questions more difficult for blacks to answer correctly. The test itself is subject to a protective order, since the state doesn't want applicants to be able to study it before they sit down to write it.

The lead plaintiff in the case, Carlos Bell, 46, a St. Clair Shores resident who grew up in Detroit and graduated from Henry Ford High School, said he failed the older state exam once and the newer exam twice, though he easily passed the equivalent screening exam for the Detroit Police Department.

Bell, a married father of two, said he was extremely disheartened by the results and it didn't immediately occur to him that the problem could have been the test itself.

"I may not have a lot of book smarts, but my common sense is pretty good," Bell told the Free Press. "I feel like I could have been the guy coming up to your car (on the freeway), and I wasn't given a chance."

Though he passed the State Police physical test a few years ago, Bell said he thinks his hopes of becoming a state trooper have died, as his knees have worsened since then. He now drives a cement truck.

Shanon Banner, a spokeswoman for the Michigan State Police, said the agency "is confident that neither the civil service exam nor our hiring practices favor or discriminate" against anyone.

"Our current trooper recruit school, which today consists of 110 total recruits, includes 20 recruits who identify as nonwhite, including 11 black recruits," Banner said in a Monday email to the Free Press. "This school also includes 17 females, making it our most diverse recruit school in 20 years."

Mungo said that lack of police diversity and related tensions with those who come into contact with police has become a national security issue, and it's essential to "conduct these tests in a way that is not likely to screen people out because of their cultural backgrounds."

Assistant Attorney General Christopher argued on behalf of the commission the proposed class of plaintiffs includes black exam writers who suffered no injury as a result of receiving a failing grade, That's because far more people wrote and passed the exam than could have been hired as Michigan State Police troopers, motor carrier officers and state property security officers, or as Department of Natural Resources conservation officers, Christopher wrote in a court filing.

But based on the number of successful exam writers who were hired, Kyle Brink of Western Michigan University, an organizational psychologist retained by Mungo, calculates that 13 more black applicants would have received jobs between 2014 and 2017 if the pass rate for black and white exam writers had been equal.

Based on lost pay and pension income for those 13 applicants, Mungo pegs economic damages at about $6.5 million, which would be distributed among all the black applicants who failed the exam. The suit seeks unspecified noneconomic damages in addition to that amount.

James Fett, a Pinckney attorney who has represented white plaintiffs in lawsuits related to Michigan State Police promotion and hiring practices, said more data needs to be analyzed before concluding the state exam is discriminating on the basis of race.

"There may be nondiscriminatory factors that explain the difference" in test performance between blacks and whites, Fett said.

For example, if most of the whites who wrote the exam had college degrees, while most of the blacks who wrote it had only completed high school, that would skew the results, he said. The education levels of all the test writers should be included in the analysis, he said.

Mungo said Monday that data about the educational level of the test writers — if it exists — has not yet been made available to the plaintiffs.

End Times
20th November 2018, 09:53 PM
Nigger it DOWN!!!

These dumb brutes want to have the power of life & death over you.


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midnight rambler
20th November 2018, 10:14 PM
These dumb brutes want to have the power of life & death over you.



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You be raycist, cracka.

Where muh badge an' gun?

midnight rambler
20th November 2018, 10:17 PM
I'm wondering how close they're going to move the goalposts...IQ of 90? IQ of 85? IQ of 80?

Fuck it! Let's quit screwing around and go for an IQ of 70!

End Times
21st November 2018, 12:54 AM
I'm wondering how close they're going to move the goalposts...IQ of 90? IQ of 85? IQ of 80?

Fuck it! Let's quit screwing around and go for an IQ of 70!

IQ tess be raciss!

BrewTech
21st November 2018, 05:13 AM
For the exam used between Feb. 15, 2014, and Nov. 24, 2014, blacks had a fail rate of 77 percent, while whites had a fail rate of 51 percent, the suit alleges. That exam, which included an essay question portion, was replaced late in 2014 with a new exam, which is all multiple choice. For that exam, which remains in use today, blacks had a fail rate of between 4 and 5 percent, compared with a 1-percent fail rate for white test writers, the suit alleges.

So, the racist test was one that blacks failed 50% more often than whites.

It was replaced by a non-racist test that blacks fail 400 - 500% more often than whites?

Wait, I better go back and read article again, I think I'm confused.

EDIT: ok, I reread it and it looks like because of CULTURAL DIFFERENCES blacks don't do well on either test.



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Definition of culture (Entry 1 of 2)



1a : the customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits of a racial, religious, or social group also : the characteristic features of everyday existence (such as diversions or a way of life) shared by people in a place or time popular culture Southern culture

b : the set of shared attitudes, values, goals, and practices that characterizes an institution or organization a corporate culture focused on the bottom line

c : the set of values, conventions (https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/convention), or social practices associated with a particular field, activity, or societal characteristic studying the effect of computers on print culture Changing the culture of materialism will take time …— Peggy O'Mara
d : the integrated (https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/integrate) pattern of human knowledge, belief, and behavior that depends upon the capacity for learning and transmitting knowledge to succeeding generations


2a : enlightenment and excellence of taste acquired by intellectual and aesthetic (https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/aesthetic#h1) training
b : acquaintance with and taste in fine arts, humanities, and broad aspects of science as distinguished from vocational and technical skills a person of culture


3 : the act or process of cultivating living material (such as bacteria or viruses) in prepared nutrient media (https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/medium#h1) also : a product of such cultivation

4 : cultivation (https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cultivation), tillage (https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tillage) We ought to blame the culture, not the soil.— Alexander Pope

5 : the act of developing the intellectual and moral faculties (https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/faculty) especially by education


6 : expert care and training beauty culture



Hmmm. That's thought-provoking.

Ares
21st November 2018, 05:25 AM
Hmmm. That's thought-provoking.

Unless you're black.... :)

BrewTech
21st November 2018, 05:39 AM
Unless you're black.... :)

After perusing this story, my quick distillation is that the test is based on cultural norms (which the LAW wold presumably reflect, being that culture itself is associated with behavior norms) that the applicant is expected to know. Otherwise how would one be an effective LEO if his expectations for behavior differ so much from the culture he is "enforcing the law" for?

The lawsuit seems to allege that because blacks have different cultural awareness (different set of behavioral standards) than whites, they can't pass the test.

If law is based on cultural norms (standards of behavior), then how would those promoting multiculturalism design a legal system that is truly just?

Have several??

madfranks
21st November 2018, 06:44 AM
After perusing this story, my quick distillation is that the test is based on cultural norms (which the LAW wold presumably reflect, being that culture itself is associated with behavior norms) that the applicant is expected to know. Otherwise how would one be an effective LEO if his expectations for behavior differ so much from the culture he is "enforcing the law" for?

The lawsuit seems to allege that because blacks have different cultural awareness (different set of behavioral standards) than whites, they can't pass the test.

If law is based on cultural norms (standards of behavior), then how would those promoting multiculturalism design a legal system that is truly just?

Have several??

I don't think any test on law would be based on cultural norms, that's just the only excuse they can think of to defend their position. It doesn't matter what the cultural norms are when you're an LEO, what matters is what the law says. That's what they say all the time, isn't it? "I'm just enforcing the law." For example, what cultural norms form the bedrock of speed limits or jaywalking? None. The applicant is expected to know the law, not what, if any, cultural norms support any given law. So when they say this:


cultural differences can make certain questions more difficult for blacks to answer correctly

They're purposefully making a vague and undefinable statement because otherwise they have to admit that black people aren't as smart as white people. I hope the judge or opposing council asks them to give an example of ^^, it would be funny to see what they come up with.

Ares
21st November 2018, 06:50 AM
I don't think any test on law would be based on cultural norms, that's just the only excuse they can think of to defend their position. It doesn't matter what the cultural norms are when you're an LEO, what matters is what the law says. That's what they say all the time, isn't it? "I'm just enforcing the law." For example, what cultural norms form the bedrock of speed limits or jaywalking? None. The applicant is expected to know the law, not what, if any, cultural norms support any given law. So when they say this:



They're purposefully making a vague and undefinable statement because otherwise they have to admit that black people aren't as smart as white people. I hope the judge or opposing council asks them to give an example of ^^, it would be funny to see what they come up with.


Life experience more than anything shows that to be true. There are a few black guys that I have gotten along with very well, but they were extremely intelligent. IQ 130+ at least. But then there is the vast majority who strive to be gangster hood rats with their hand out for gibsmedats....

End Times
21st November 2018, 12:16 PM
it looks like because of CULTURAL DIFFERENCES blacks don't do well on either test.


Facts Matter = "Culturally-Biased"

End Times
21st November 2018, 12:20 PM
After perusing this story, my quick distillation is that the test is based on cultural norms (which the LAW wold presumably reflect, being that culture itself is associated with behavior norms) that the applicant is expected to know. Otherwise how would one be an effective LEO if his expectations for behavior differ so much from the culture he is "enforcing the law" for?

The lawsuit seems to allege that because blacks have different cultural awareness (different set of behavioral standards) than whites, they can't pass the test.

If law is based on cultural norms (standards of behavior), then how would those promoting multiculturalism design a legal system that is truly just?

Have several??


Culturally-loaded scenarios...


Strong-arm robbing a convenience store owner for Swisher Sweets

Black Position = "I dindu nuffin'!"

White Position = an act of violent theft


Running a "fight club" at a children's daycare center

Black Position = "I dindu nuffin'!"

White Position = an act of gross child abuse and neglect



White leftist "solution": eliminate punishment...https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-45831849