Chief Charlie Beck at Graduation podcast part 1
Chief Charlie Beck podcast part 2
Friday, September 10, 2024 – Please click on the link above to hear the podcast of LAPD Chief of Police Charlie Beck addressing Officer Graduation Ceremony Class 3A-10. The graduation class consists of 26 police officers, 19 males and seven females. The ethnic breakdown of the class is as follows: 9 Caucasians, 11 Hispanics, three African American, and three Asians (two of which are Korean). Graduating officers have completed 920 hours of training over the course of 24 weeks.
Why is it so important to give a breakdown about what nationality graduated or sex for that matter. How bout, "26 Qualified persons graduated from the police academy today." I can't believe all this, especially the reverse racism in the selection process. It should be the best candidate that gets selected, not based on race, gender, or anything else......That is what civil rights activists wanted, EQUALITY. Not you get a job because you are a female, black, hispanic, or asian.
Posted by: Concerned about the future. | September 10, 2024 at 05:23 PM
Are you kidding me? Who cares what race or gender the recruit grads are! Tell me what their Bonus score was! And how did they do on the tac challenge? My Lord, what is this place coming to? If you're going to put in info about the recruits, that's what the P-3's in the street want to know! I could care less what race my P-1 is if and when we are in the fight of our lives.
Posted by: 77th P-3 | September 14, 2024 at 01:34 AM
It's because this is LA and EVERYTHING is based on race, sex, or sexual orientation. It's just like the other post about the command staff promotions. They list how so and so is the first Asian to be promoted to a certain position or so and so is the first female, etc. Best qualified has little to do with getting hired or promoted in the LAPD anymore. It's all about political correctness.
As for why they don't post their bonus score or tac challenge score, that's because this blog is meant for civilians and most of them would have no idea what bonus qualification or the tac challenge is.
Overall I think that the recruits coming out of the academy are no better and no worse then the ones in the past. Most are highly motivated and some get it and some don't. It's common for officers to think that the academy was tougher and the recruits better when they were in but it just isn't so. I saw the same mentality in the military. Everybody likes to think that they had it tougher and were better than the new guys.
Posted by: FTO | September 17, 2024 at 09:46 PM
Who cares about the racial make up? What a crock of garbage!
Posted by: Ed O'Shea | September 22, 2024 at 07:57 PM