Officer Who Shot 12-Year-Old Tamir Rice Failed Sheriff Department Exam

[MohRokTah]

Sad.

Officer Who Shot 12-Year-Old Tamir Rice Failed Sheriff Department Exam

The Cleveland police officer who shot and killed 12-year-old Tamir Rice had previously failed the written exam to be a deputy in the Cuyahoga County Sheriff's Department, according to documents reviewed by the Northeast Ohio Media Group.

Timothy Loehmann took the exam in September 2013 and scored a 46 percent on the cognitive exam administered by the department. The department considers a 70 percent a passing score.

Loehmann did pass the physical exam, but the Cuyahoga County Sheriff's Department did not ultimately accept his application to be a deputy sheriff, according to the Northeast Ohio Media Group.

Loehmann resigned from the Independence police department in 2012 after a poor performance review. He applied to numerous police departments before he was hired in Cleveland, according to the media group.

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[safeinOhio]

1. This won't look good for

Cleveland in any civil suit.

Pay police more
require at least a bachelor degree
hold them to a high standard on the job.

[hollysmom]

3. don't agree about batchelor's degree

people either have street smarts or they don't - a degree does not change that. The main problem is that police "help" each other and treat each one like a special little princess. So delicate bad names can hurt them. The police man who piulled his gun on me when I was 24 had a degree, but also some sort of weird ego that told him all women should submit to him. But then he was a drugged up baby. Luckily for me, his partner had a brain - that he should not kill me in front of about 100 witnesses in a restaurant, liked that he called me a druggy hippie slut, when I was married, sober and trying to have a quiet dinner with an old friend/roomate and drinking a soda after a day working in my office job.

[ScreamingMeemie]

5. Some pretty giant jackasses hold bachelor degrees.... how about require them to score

high on empathy in a psychological test.

Some of the greatest humanitarians I have ever known never received a degree. That's just silly.

[Lancero]

6. Eh, I don't think the degree would make much diffrence...

Since police have a policy of 'not' hiring intelligent people. A policy that the courts have agreed is just fine to use.

http://thefreethoughtproject.com/court-police-departments-refuse-hire-smart/

[safeinOhio]

12. I guess a teacher could be good teachers with out a degree too.

There are many bad teachers with degrees, so why require it.

Because education is important. It is not the end all answer, but it does help. With a degree, police can be paid more and that can lead to attracting better people into the field.

I also suggested hold them to a higher standard and that is a big part of it and that comes from better pay.

[MyOwnPeace]

13. BEAUTIFUL..........

response!!!!

[Turbineguy]

2. I think the fallout

from the Bush Economic Miracle pushed unsuitable people into occupations that seem to promise some security.

[pansypoo53219]

7. it usually a bad cop or incompetent cop.

[MohRokTah]

8. The problem is, the rest of the cops MUST STOP protecting the bad and incompetent cops.

If they did that, they'd regain the trust of the public almost immediately.

[TrollBuster9090]

11. +1000

Absolutely true! The good cops need to stop protecting the bad cops. You'd think they'd be doing that already, given that the bad cops are giving them ALL a bad name.

[TrollBuster9090]

9. Amazing. So, these are the qualifications required to be a Cleveland Police Officer these days...

1. You must be only 2/3rds as smart as THE DUMBEST person the Cuyahoga County Shariff's Department will accept, and

2. You must be considered too incompetent to serve on the police force of a town that has only 7000 people in it.




Got any trash you want to get rid of? Send it to the Cleveland Police Department.

[cwydro]

10. He also

was given NO reference from his previous department except to say that he had NO business being a cop.

Apparently, he broke down emotionally at a shooting range.

The guy is a screw up on every level.

They hired him anyway.