Can you explain what a New London, CT hiring practice has to do with a question on the NYPD exam?

Very interesting - so could the modus operandi be: make a few mistakes but not too many, get recruited, now you are the 1% IQ-wise, take more exams and rise through the ranks to get off the street asap and retire with great benefits?

You only know what the lawsuit says. My guess is there was some other issues with personality evaluated.

Think of a pilot. A pilot needs to be in command, exert control and assess situations in the fly. Yet a pilot also must be disposed to understand and follow complex rules and procedures precisely. The military does a lot of screening to identify that personality, and if you’ve known pilots, you can spot one.

I would presume to guess there are criteria for a police officer that an exam would try to identify, if allowed to do so.