March 8, 2013

TN Police Screen Out Racists




Coopertown, Tennessee's new police chief Shane Sullivan is using polygraph tests to see if job applicants are racist


Two concerns with this focus. It is based on barring applicants for a being a racist, a status crime. If the Chief tests based only white applicants that is discrimination too. Do the police also test black persons,  Muslims, and Hispanic applicants for racism? 



http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2290187/Police-chief-small-Tennessee-town-using-lie-detector-test-root-racist-officers-job-interviews.html

Police chief in small Tennessee town now using a lie detector test to root out racist would-be officers during job interviews
By ASSOCIATED PRESS
Daily Mail (UK)
PUBLISHED: 09:47 EST, 8 March 2013 | UPDATED: 09:48 EST, 8 March 2013




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http://apnews.myway.com/article/20130308/DA4SR6001.html

Police chief's polygraph targets racist applicants
AP
Mar 8, 4:44 AM (ET)
By SHEILA BURKE

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