Ed, can you please tell me how a standardized written test can discriminate against black and Latino police officers? They said in the article that the police sergeant’s exam does. It is a written test based on case law and situations, and personnel management. How can a written test possibly discriminate against someone’s race? We keep lowering the standards over and over again. I thought you wanted the best people to make the decisions in the Trenton Police Department. We should not change the standards to make the test easy.

Sgt. Standard

It seems they’re working backward from the test results to determine that the test is discriminatory. —Ed. Note