http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/01/07/reagan.grandson.arrest/index.html?eref=igoogle_cnn

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Los Angeles, California (CNN) -- A grandson of former President Reagan was arrested early Thursday in Los Angeles, California, police said.

Cameron Reagan, 31, was taken into custody by police responding to a house alarm at 12:20 a.m. (3:20 a.m. ET), said Officer Gregory Baek of the Los Angeles Police Department.

There was a minor amount of force used, Baek said. Reagan was detained for resisting arrest and is being held on $10,000 bail. Resisting arrest is a misdemeanor.

Police believe the house where he was arrested is his own.

Did they just not make the gene pool deep enough when they created cops?

I read that Chicago is thinking about discontinuing entrance exams for the police department in order to be able to put more minorities on the police force. This policy should work out real well and people should flock to Chicago to be protected by morons with guns.

The Chicago Police Department is seriously considering scrapping the police entrance exam, sources tell Fran Spielman.

Dropping the exam would bolster minority hiring and avert legal battles, according to one source, while others confirm that the exam could be scrapped to open the process to as many people as possible.

However, the lack of an exam would make Chicago the lone major city without one, and experts contend that the exam is integral to eliminating unqualified applicants.

The CPD has tried in recent years to boost minority hiring by offering the police exam online and turning to minority clergy to help in the recruitment effort.

But those efforts have met with frustration. Despite seeing an increase in the number of minority applicants in 2006, the last year the exam was offered, the online component was never launched.

And as of last year, one in four patrol officers were African-American, but just one in 12 Lieutenants were of color.

Fraternal Order of Police President Mark Donahue said the plan "sounds ridiculous."

"With this, you're taking away one of the steps that attempts to legitimize the (hiring) process," he said.

Asked about plan Wednesday morning, Mayor Daley said he was unaware of any plans to do away with the exam.

"I never heard anything about that," he said.

But the city's Department of Human Resources didn't deny it.  In a statement, the department said the city is "reviewing all options right now on how to handle the application process."

The CPD is currently operating at 2,000 officers-a-day short of its authorized strength. Police hired only 46 officers this year, with plans to hire less than 100 next year -- and those hirings rely on federal funds.

So there 'really' will be such as a thing as a 'dumb cop'! Only in Chicago, huh?

Ill bet that this isn't Cameron Reagan's first encounter with police. Looks like he's learned nothing from rehab and anger management. Time for him to put down the booze and drugs and start acting like a man in his 30s.

Shame on his father...making excuses for his adult child. If my son ever got belligerently drunk, tripped an alarm, and tried to fight the responding officers...his a** would be grass