Any police officers ever been good runners?

Ever heard of Baker to Vegas? I'm runner and not a cop. If threatened, I'll call a cop, not a runner. Even if he's munching donuts. Ever seen runners near a box of donuts? It's not pretty.

During the course of getting my masters in criminal justice, I took a class on Police, which discussed this case. It is true. This is what happens when you hire cops that are too smart:The police force in Portland (I belive that's the city we were talking about) had a higher than normal average IQ. What happens when you have too many smart people as cops are 2 things: 1) they question authority and 2) they get bored. This lead to the precinct devising a plan where they would take recovered stolen electronics, sell them to people, and then arrest those people for buying stolen goods. This got them in a lot of trouble.The same study found that the precincts that had lower than normal average IQs (the dumbest was a town in Florida), the cops just followed directions and did what they were supposed to do.This moral of the story: you don't have to be stupid to be a cop, but smart cops are not desirable because they get bored with writing tickets and become unmanageable.

In Da Hood wrote:

Really?

A candidate for a police officer's job scored a perfect score on the exam. He was denied admission when everything else about him was stellar. Reason for being denied? He was too smart.

He took his case to the US Supreme Court ruled in favor of the police force. Their reasoning: They can deny admission to those who show high intelligence because they are likely to get bored being a policeman.

Moral: You have to be stupid to be a cop.

Lasse Viren

Juma Ikangaa

There are several Ethiopian runners who are cops and happen to be good runners. I can't name them of head.

We also have Rop Roders, Ochichi, Kamathi e.t.c.

You can insert almost any profession in that made up story you moron. I know cops who have gone on to be lawyers, successful businessmen, and college professors.

Frank Assuma graduate of UCR 1984-5?

Awesome Miler, 3:54 I think. He has actually run down fleeing criminals, much to the criminal's surprize.

He's an expert on gang "intelligence".

Its idiots like "In da Hood" that keep the police in business. And while I'm thinking of it if you don't like being stereotyped then don't use terminology like "In da Hood". Just because ebonics exists doesn't mean you have to swear by it. I live in a nice community (not a "hood") my friends are friends (not "homies"), my BMW is my car, not my "ride", not to mention its not my fault that my great great grandfather owned yours, so get your head out of your ass.

Thank you.

Lasse Viren busted some hard-asses in Finland. Anyone here the story about him laying the smack down on some guy stealing apples in an orchard?

Read my post on the previous page, moron. "In da hood" got some details wrong, but this is a real case from a federal court of appeals. The city's rationale for not hiring people who did well on the intelligence test was that, just as you suggest, such people quickly left the police force to go on to other jobs. It wasn't worth the time and expense to train them if they were going to leave in a couple of years.

Of course, this case involved only one police force. I have no idea whether other cities follow the same practice.