Of the four gay applicants who asked to
become police officers today, two were
rejected due to drug use.
He said that he had already disqualified
based on a
prior use of cocaine.
To be specific,
one applicant did not have enough college
credit and one had AIDS.
A department spokesman says if not for
those various disqualifications, the
applicants would not have been rejected
based on their verbal claims of
homosexuality alone.
Now, we don't accept their word.
We go beyond that.
With the polygraph and background
investigation,
gay leaders are claiming a small victory.
They say that's an improvement over last
week when a lesbian was shown the door
during her first interview when she
admitted to being a practicing
homosexual.
Gay leaders say they will now send
qualified gay applicants to the
department to see how far they get.
But last week, Chief Vines said anyone
who practices deviant sex like
sodomy will not be hired by
the department.
How feasible is it that there are
officers on the force right now who do
engage in deviant sexual acts?
I don't know. There's no way for us to
know that. All I can say is that
in the past we have had instances where
officers have been accused of that
and they've been terminated from employment.