{"id":3205,"date":"2018-01-04T11:35:47","date_gmt":"2018-01-04T17:35:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/republicreborn.com\/?p=3205"},"modified":"2018-01-04T11:41:00","modified_gmt":"2018-01-04T17:41:00","slug":"of-iq-scores-law-enforcement-employment-policy-and-police-brutality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/republicreborn.com\/2018\/01\/04\/of-iq-scores-law-enforcement-employment-policy-and-police-brutality\/","title":{"rendered":"Of IQ scores, law enforcement employment policy, and police brutality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is there anything more terrifying than a dumb person with a gun?\u00a0 Well, there are, but an armed dumb person is bad, and if they’ve got a badge pinned to their chest, they have the potential to become a living nightmare.\u00a0 This situation, however, is the norm within the nation’s police departments, who’s officers have a mean IQ score of 104.\u00a0 That’s not all that low, and not exactly “dumb”,with the mean IQ score for US citizens being<a href=\"https:\/\/iq-research.info\/en\/page\/average-iq-by-country\/us-united-states\" xlink=\"href\"> 98<\/a>, but a<a href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/us-court-ruled-you-can-be-too-smart-to-be-a-cop\/5420630\" xlink=\"href\"> court ruling from 2000<\/a> casts a shadow over the correlation between IQ and employment opportunities within law enforcement.\u00a0 Basically, the court ruled that the police can refuse to hire someone based on an IQ that is\u00a0<em>too high.\u00a0<\/em>Robert Jordan applied for a job as an officer but was rejected based an IQ score of 125 which was deemed too high.\u00a0 The court ruled that the department had a right to discriminate based on IQ because it could possibly result in lower turn-over.\u00a0 Theoretically, smarter people would get bored with police work and quit.\u00a0 Seems like any company could then discriminate based on IQ, which I believe is within their right, but I also believe something else is at play here.<\/p>\n<p>Smarter people are less likely to be overtaken by emotion, less likely to follow an order that could lead to harm of someone.\u00a0 It would be interesting to see the IQ score of the SWAT cop who recently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kansas.com\/news\/local\/crime\/article192111974.html\" xlink=\"href\">murdered<\/a> a young father-of-two who did nothing more than answer the door, or Philip Brailsford, the Arizona cop who murdered a prone and sobbing Daniel Shaver, also a young father-of-two.\u00a0 It should be noted that Shaver’s 8-year old daughter said she <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/daniel-shavers-young-daughter-wanted-die-after-police-officer-who-killed-her-748313\" xlink=\"href\">“wanted to die”<\/a> so she could be with her daddy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azcentral.com\/story\/news\/local\/mesa\/2017\/11\/29\/ex-mesa-officer-philip-brailsford-murder-trial-testifies-sad-after-shooting\/907307001\/\" xlink=\"href\">Brailsford clearly looks like a dim bulb<\/a>, and has a history of unnecessarily injecting violence into situations.\u00a0 But it would be interesting to see the results of an IQ test.\u00a0 I imagine he’s on the left side of the bell curve.<\/p>\n<p>I write this also because of my interactions with police.\u00a0 While cordial, they are clearly very emotional people.\u00a0 I don’t believe its the nature of their job, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/blake-fleetwood\/how-dangerous-is-police-w_b_6373798.html\" xlink=\"href\">which is safer than most<\/a>, but rather the screening process.<\/p>\n<p>Could higher intelligence standards, more comprehensive IQ tests, lead to fewer deaths at the hands of American cops?\u00a0 I have a feeling it could.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is there anything more terrifying than a dumb person with a gun?\u00a0 Well, there are, but an armed dumb person is bad, and if they’ve got a badge pinned to their chest, they have the potential to become a living 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