Mazra wrote:
xNocturnalSunx wrote:
Trying at least!
Do women get certain benefits when applying? Over here, if a woman applies for the academy she's practically guaranteed to get in. It's almost as bad as when someone of Middle-eastern skin tone applies. Those guys get a personal coach and a "become a police officer for free" card.
You can tell I'm not bitter that I didn't get in, right?
Not necessarily. Granted, women and minority races do get a minor leg up over, say a white male, just because of the equality within the department and the "no discrimination" policy that a majority of departments have in place. Let's face it, over here, a majority of the police officers are white males.
Not sure if they have a quota that is needing to be met with having a certain number of minority officers though (wouldn't surprise me if they do). Being a female does help though (so I guess what I previously said isn't entirely true and there is benefit from it). When they were putting me into the system, they didn't have a "Mixed" option in regards to race. I had to choose to be either caucasian or asian. So naturally, I had them put down asian, since it is the minority.
We don't get a become an officer for free card as we still have to work for it, but it doesn't hurt.