Dallas PD eases hiring rules on drug use

[Jaxon]

By Tanya Eiserer
The Dallas Morning News

DALLAS — The Dallas Police Department recently made changes to its hiring rules to relax standards related to drug use to compete in a highly competitive job market.

The new policy, which is similar to the one used by the FBI, allows the department to consider hiring applicants who have used small amounts of drugs like cocaine or heroin on an experimental basis in the distant past.

"It gives us a standard used by what some people think is the most professional law enforcement agency in the country," Police Chief David Kunkle said ...Full Story

Is it me, or does this seem..... bad? Maybe I'm just an old fogey from the last century..

 

[Admin]

If it's a highly competitive job market why do they need to "relax" the standards?

Or are they saying they can't find enough boots who haven't used coke or heroin in the past?

 

[Len-2A Training]

Dallas can't keep officers. They leave the PD at an alarming rate.

Lowering standards like this is counterproductive IMNSHO.

 

[Admin]

Lowering standards like this is counterproductive IMNSHO.

I agree.

 

[Chris]

Get the feeling someone's son wants to be a cop and can't qualify?

 

[Neptune Cat]

I think It's a great idea. As long as they get random drug tests to make sure they aren't
currently using. I'm talking about past recreation users, not addicts.

Who can spot an alcholic better than a reformed alcholic? No one!!!

The same goes for other drugs as well.

Is It okay for them to hire reformed alcholics? I know quite a few cops who are
currently alcholics. I even knew a CLEO who was an alcholic while serving.

 

[Admin]

I agree Neptune Cat. If they also institute random tests than I have no issue with it.

 

[TY43215]

I agree Neptune Cat. If they also institute random tests than I have no issue with it.

Dallas has always had help problems. It is a very busy city. In the 70's they did a bid Northeast recruitment that included moving expenses. I always wished I had gone.

 

[springer]

What's wrong with someone who's a recreational heroin user???[

 

[Neptune Cat]

What's wrong with someone who's a recreational heroin user???[

Past user? nothing!!!

They know more about heroin and heroin users than any officer, or
drug task force can ever pretend to know. They can identify better
than anyone if, in fact a perp is using heroin or something completly
different, like meth. They can identify stages of a high better than
anyone who has never used before. They know how to treat a
situation and/or an individual to achieve the intended results.

Someone on the outside looking in, doesn't even know what they are
looking at, if they've never been on the inside. No matter what the
books tell you!!

 

[Jose]

Dallas can't keep officers. They leave the PD at an alarming rate.

Lowering standards like this is counterproductive IMNSHO.

+1

It's the beginning of what pilots know as a corkscrew spin. Once you get past a certain point, it is unrecoverable.

 

[MichaelJ]

Bah...lower your standards for anything and you are bound to be screwed in the end. High standards = high quality applicants (no pun intended). Oh yeah...I scored in band 10 for the civil service test and have never drank/drugged (always wanted the best shot at being a cop) so I may be a bit against this new policy. Band 10 = 97%-100% on the written test... woot!

 

[JonJ]

It appears that the City of Dallas is ignoring history. One only needs to look at what happened when the LAPD lowered it's standards in the 90s.

 

[jkelly]

Someone on the outside looking in, doesn't even know what they are
looking at, if they've never been on the inside. No matter what the
books tell you!!---

Is that you Deval?

I like it, we could recruit from the prisons and call the program “Commit a Crime, Get a Badge”. After all who’s going to know child abuse, rape and murder better the career criminals?


Respectfully,

jkelly

 

[Neptune Cat]

Is that you Deval?

I like it, we could recruit from the prisons and call the program “Commit a Crime, Get a Badge”. After all who’s going to know child abuse, rape and murder better the career criminals?


Respectfully,

jkelly

Ha Ha!!

No, not at all. I'm not a politician.

You, however, put a very efficient spin on my words.

I just believe that profiling is a very important part of detective work
do you think you can profile efficiently?

Ok, maybe they shouldn't be police and given guns and cars. but I do
think they have thier place possibly.

I'm not going to go into detail, but I may know more about this subject
than anyone here!!


It's like when you are talking to an anti about guns and the only thing
they know about them is what they've learned from the media.

Do you all think a reformed alcoholic should be allowed on a Police force?


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[jkelly]

You, however, put a very efficient spin on my words.---Neptune Cat

Thank you, it was meant to be a joke after all.

I'm not going to go into detail, but I may know more about this subject
than anyone here!!---Neptune Cat

That, I’m sorry to hear. (no spin/humor intended)

Respectfully,

jkelly

 

[Neptune Cat]

Thank you, it was meant to be a joke after all.

I know, I laughed

 

[Neptune Cat]

That, I’m sorry to hear. (no spin/humor intended)

All has turned out very well! over 18 years ago now!

 

[TimJ]

I'm sure a bunch of folks who've had no qualms about committing felonies before (using coke/meth/heroin) won't have qualms about enforcing un-Constitutional gun control laws. freakin' hooray. The ciminals are being recruited.
At least thye're not overweight. that's a really morally reprehensible thing.