I’d put that down to atrophied reading skills. Actual illiteracy is usually a sign that someone never learned, there’s also functional illiteracy wherein someone can technically read and write but they aren’t interacting with it beyond parroting the words.
Ice pays less than most local law enforcement jobs and they don’t have to lie about what they do for a living. No one with a real choice is choosing ice.
I know that many departments have a maximum intelligence limit, but is “too dumb to be a cop” really thing?
Didn’t it come out that some ICE goons don’t know how to read or write?
Half of the country reads at 5th grade level or below.
That factoid keeps getting pulled out.
It’s literally untrue, or at the very least misrepresented.
Half of the country of the USA have only passed 6th Grade English exams.
That does not mean they are incapable, just that they’ve only got a little piece of paper somewhere saying “I passed a test!” up to that point.
https://porchroot.substack.com/p/why-half-of-americans-read-like-theyre
And it’s clear those ICE motherfuckers ain’t in the top half.
I’d put that down to atrophied reading skills. Actual illiteracy is usually a sign that someone never learned, there’s also functional illiteracy wherein someone can technically read and write but they aren’t interacting with it beyond parroting the words.
Don’t Americans in general use English (Simplified) anyway?
More than the Brits? I don’t think so, but maybe in certain regions.
Ice pays less than most local law enforcement jobs and they don’t have to lie about what they do for a living. No one with a real choice is choosing ice.
ICE: setting a new standard for police across the country
Yes.