It's very easy to start generalizing and speculating. But does anyone know how prevalent the low IQ standard is across the country? Presumably its set by each department, so that's like 10k or 20k different policies.
There's no uniform policy, but the person in the article above eventually filed a case that reached the 2nd Circuit. The court determined that the police did not violate any discrimination laws by forbidding smarter applicants, because the test was applied uniformly[1].
Edit: it's left to us to understand why "uniform application" prevents discrimination. The court apparently didn't consider that a discriminatory test, uniformly applied, is still fundamentally discriminatory.
> it's left to us to understand why "uniform application" prevents discrimination. The court apparently didn't consider that a discriminatory test, uniformly applied, is still fundamentally discriminatory.
The US legal system considers that all the time. Minimum IQ requirements run into legal problems because they have a disproportionately negative impact on blacks. But a low maximum requirement would have a disproportionately positive impact on blacks, so no problems there.
