{"id":174916,"date":"2025-08-25T17:55:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T17:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/174916\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T17:55:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T17:55:11","slug":"scoring-change-sinks-sergeant-exam-n-j-court-says-rule-following-cops-got-burned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/174916\/","title":{"rendered":"Scoring change sinks sergeant exam. N.J. court says rule-following cops got burned."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" loading=\"eager\" alt=\"Court Throws Out Police exam scoring change that penalized rule-following officers\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"hero-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/SHPWA5SZT5G2FCZVXRRKYZPUME.jpg\" \/>Officers who took the 2019 sergeant exam argued they were punished for following instructions after the state changed how the test was scored.Canva for NJ.com<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"BNZTXQBDEZEERGYYD4OA2SG2HI\">A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.njcourts.gov\/self-help\/appeals\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.njcourts.gov\/self-help\/appeals\">New Jersey appeals court<\/a> has thrown out a 2019 police promotion exam, ruling that the state\u2019s attempt to help minority candidates by changing the scoring method was unjustified and unfair to those who followed the test instructions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"CNLI6Q2UTJHDFH2QKSHDABRIOM\">The issue began when the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nj.gov\/csc\/jobs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nj.gov\/csc\/jobs\/\">Civil Service Commission<\/a> removed the last 10 questions from the sergeant exam, saying those questions unfairly lowered scores for Black and Hispanic officers. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--center skimlinks\">If you purchase a product or register for an account through a link on our site, we may receive compensation. By using this site, you consent to our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.advancelocal.com\/advancelocalUserAgreement\/user-agreement.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">User Agreement<\/a> and agree that your clicks, interactions, and personal information may be collected, recorded, and\/or stored by us and social media and other third-party partners in accordance with our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.advancelocal.com\/advancelocalUserAgreement\/privacy-policy.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Privacy Policy.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Officers who took the 2019 sergeant exam argued they were punished for following instructions after the state changed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":174917,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5132],"tags":[5229,1448,2830,1311,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-174916","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-pa","10":"tag-pennsylvania","11":"tag-philadelphia","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-united-states-of-america","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","16":"tag-us","17":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115090694353959040","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}