They’re young and many of them are home grown. Steve Krauchick of Doing It Local shares this video that provides insight into why they want to become city police officers.
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Conversations With Young Police Recruits
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Steve K,
Nice job here. Don’t know who selected the six officer trainees but if they are representative of the diversity, age, and background of those currently preparing, it sounds promising for the community.
It might be interesting to follow the same people one, three and five years from now to see how the job and life have changed their initial thoughts for selecting this vocational field. Time will tell.
Good luck to all the cadets and may they have a safe career.
This is very heartening, actually. I’ve always thought and said Bridgeport Police are the best anywhere but it’s great to see a new generation actually from the City who have such ideals as those expressed here. Color me impressed!
First, keep God first; second, keep your family next and then your police family. This what I tell any new firefighter. I glad to see the production that was made to make this video, now let’s see the City do what Judge Eddie Rodriguez said at the swearing-in ceremony for the new police chief Perez and correct the terrible numbers with diversity in the higher positions of leadership in the police department. Let me say this. I can assure the new class of Bridgeport firefighters will definitely not look like those in this video.
Ron, if you want more diversity in the upper ranks of the PD then all candidates have to put in the study time to pass what I assume will be a job-related test. Time will tell. How did we get these minority candidates but can’t get the same numbers in the FD?
Andy, while I can’t speak to BPD with respect to promotions I can speak to the BFD promotional process. A process was put into place where blacks took from 35% to 52% off every tested position and when Dunn was given the Civil Service position, he fired the testing companies that were being used, quit bringing in outside assessors to save money and negotiated with the union to change the relative weights of the exams to place more value on the written rather than the practical.
With respect to hiring in the BFD, Dunn enacted a lie detector exam, a psychological exam and the biggest barrier was using CPAT as the physical agility exam. If the system for hiring and promotions was working and wasn’t broken then the only reason to change it was because Dunn didn’t like the results, that being blacks being hired and promoted. He will tell you he’s looking for a better firefighter, which simply means he’s looking for a whiter firefighter. Go back and look at his response to Ron and my OIB post and you will see where he only discusses this hiring police exam and not those exams prior to this one and never addresses how many were promoted under his civil service.
I think what David Dunn did was reprehensible ad what is worse the UNION did nothing absolutely nothing shame on them
Don, let me leave race out about blacks for a moment, where are the white female candidates out of the 1,000 candidates who took the last entry level firefighter exam who took the CPAT test? The answer is NONE.
Nancy O’Donnell passed the firefighter exam on the exam before the City changed to using CPAT but she left the fire department after two week to become a Bridgeport Police officer. Well, last month Nancy O’Donnell was promoted and sworn in as a Sergeant in the Bridgeport Police Department, now what’s missing here?