The St. Louis City Police Department has opened an investigation of the St. Louis City Fire Department. There are allegations that a Fire Commander took recruits at the Fire Academy away from training in groups of four at a time, for a total of twenty recruits affected, and made them clear junk and debris from an apartment building the Commander owned. The news of the Police investigation of the Fire Department broke yesterday.
Today, Fire Department officials are fighting back, claiming that it’s all political, based on the fact that City Hall has been trying to force the Fire Department (against its will) to promote a bunch of white firemen. A recent promotion test, based on skill and qualifications, showed that nearly all of those that should be promoted are white, and the affirmative action junkies that run the Fire Department took it to Federal court, and lost, i.e. the courts said the test was not discriminatory. Since that point, City Hall has been lobbying to the Fire Department to make the promotions formally, but they’re dragging their heels.
It’s a goofy theory, and here’s why.
In the first place, City Hall has almost no control over the Police Department, as black anti-police activist keep reminding us. Four of the five members of the Police Board are chosen by Missouri’s Governor, while the Mayor gets the fifth seat. So even if City Hall wanted to use the Police Department to do this or anything, it couldn’t make them.
Second, the Police Department is run by the same mentality of affirmative action goober that runs the Fire Department. I don’t think that the PD would engage in a politically-motivated vendetta on the FD based on the fact that the FD wants to use affirmative action. The PD wouldn’t do that sort of thing either at the behest of others, or on its own.
That’s why I think this investigation is legit.
[...] should be suing St. Louis City’s Fire Department, and Chief Sherman George in particular. They’re doing everything they can not to promote mostly white firefighters to Battalion Chief …, because there are two few blacks in the group that actually passed the tests and thus deserve the [...]