Well, it’s all been solved! Our growing crime problem stemming from increase gang and drug related violence has been summed up and figured out by the genius of one of our own expert professors at Valencia Community College! I just read an an article on Central Florida News 13 with the following:

Its not just crime statistics making news today. Now, a local expert says the Orlando Police Department does not have enough minorities working the streets.

Dr. Stanley Stone from Valencia Community College studied the department’s recruiting process and says the department has a weakness when it comes to hiring minorities.

Right now there are 732 officers, 450 of which are not minorities.

They are not only looking for officers who are not caucasion, they are also looking for more female officers.

“We need to make sure that police officers who we find are representative of the community. We need to have a diverse workforce,” Dr. Stone said.

Let me be the first to say, Dr. Stanley Stone, that you are a complete and total idiot. According to your numbers 61.5% of the Orlando police force are white males. According to the last US Census of 2000 the demographics of Orlando were 61.1% white. That means the Orlando police force is within 0.4% of being dead on with being representative of the community they serve.

But let’s put the pertinent numbers aside, as you obviously have done. Let’s look at the reason and logic of the situation. The issue in Orlando is a rise in violent crime. Should our focus be on making sure “the girls are being picked for the team”? I am light years away from making some bonehead statement like Newt about foxhole infections, but let’s be honest. This is a physical job and if we want to combat violent crime even more we are talking about kicking down doors and slamming full grown vastly predominantly male violent offenders to the ground on a daily basis. Having more males on the force than female is just going to come with the territory.

I also see where the esteemed professor is heading with comments of making the force more representative of the community, that some perception of a white oppressive police force somehow perpetuates the crime and makes people untrusting of police. Here’s a reality check, a lot of the violent crime involving minorities is conducted by and against minorities. Are you thinking that if the police force were all minorities that criminals would be less likely to commit crime? That doesn’t even make sense. These criminals are probably the least concerned about race than anyone in the community. The only color they care about is green, and they are going to run when they see blue lights no matter what color the car’s occupants are.

Its just sad people like this are in the role of educators.

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