Should there be a min. academic requirement for Newark Police Officers?

[ProSouth]

I think the NPD should institute a minimum academic requirement of at least an associates degree or at most a bachelor's degree. Don't know if it would happen though since our Police Director, Lt. Anthony "Afro" Ambrose has a G.E.D. What are your thought?
http://img358.imageshack.us/img358/142/ambrose6ch.png (http://imageshack.us)

[LastCubanStanding]

No question about it. makes for better, more mature cops. Some departments allow for military experience to fulfill the academic requirements. Here are the NJSP requirements:

An applicant must have (1) a bachelor's degree, signifying completion of the undergraduate curriculum and graduation from an accredited college or university or, (2) alternatively, an associate's degree or have completed 60 college credits from an accredited college or university, plus at least two years of satisfactory employment or military experience indicating the maturity of the applicant.

[Doofus1]

I'm all for such requirements.

[LastCubanStanding]

Send the recruits to the NJSP Academy in Sea Girt, like many other towns do. NPD academy obviously not up to snuff.

[CaptainJim59]

If that were so, that would have to dovetail with getting rid of the Newark resident requirement. I can't go along with the college requirement because due to my family being financially unable to send me to college, I didn't get my degree until after I became a Police Officer. But it couldn't hurt.

And as to that Picture of Ambrose, is that pull over hairdo hideous?

[Outside]

How many other major PD's in the country are headed by a man (with Lt rank) who did not graduate high school and has no college degree?

Maybe somebody with internet savvy can look up the biggest PD in each state and see what the head guy has on his resume, then compare it to AA