These proposals are misdirected on several counts. First. the way to increase job opportunities for minority groups on the police force is not through the imposition of job quotas for various social categories. Quota systems are not the "American way." Ethnics in Americawhether they be Poles. Italians. Irish. or Jewshave always been opposed to quota systems. Rather. members of such groups have always fought for systems of equal opportunity in which hiring and promotion decisions were made according to the ability of the individual involved and not by his country of native origin. The use of quotas to remedy past injustices is illusory because it is impossible to impose a quota in favor of some individuals or groups without discriminating against others.
Identified stereotypes
Generalization that all ethnics oppose quota systems.