We're asking for problems. And everyone knows it. That's why special treatment backfires. Quotas assume that no women or minorities can carry their end of the ladder without unfair help. That's a patronizing insult to the minorities and women who have made it the hard way.
City officials defend their good intentions to just give a few individuals a break.
But they're not doing recruits any favors. And that could be fatel. Peter Bronson is editorial page editor of The Enquirer. The Cincinnati Enquirer , a Gannett Co. Inc. newspaper.