The Police Are not Stupid
But they are not smart either.
5 min readJun 12, 2020
In 1996 Robert Jordan took a test in the hope of becoming a police officer in the town of New London, Connecticut. Jordan scored very well on the test, especially on the cognitive ability portion, but he was not given an interview. When he asked why, he was told that, having scored a 33 on the test, he was not asked to interview because departmental policy was to…
