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Police in America

Police in America. Chapter Five Police Officers: Entering Police Work. Choosing Law Enforcement as a Career. Motivations Help people Job security Fight crime Excitement of the job Prestige of the job. The Personnel Process. Shared with other governmental agencies

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Police in America

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  1. Police in America Chapter Five Police Officers: Entering Police Work

  2. Choosing Law Enforcement as a Career Motivations • Help people • Job security • Fight crime • Excitement of the job • Prestige of the job

  3. The Personnel Process Shared with other governmental agencies Attracting a pool of applicants • Minimum qualifications • The recruitment effort • Applicant’s decision to apply

  4. Recruitment Minimum Qualifications • Most 21 years of age • Height and Weight • Education • 62.9% high school diploma • 22.6% require some college Criminal record • No felony • Misdemeanor? Residency • About ¼ of departments require living within the city limits

  5. Selection & Screening Method % Dept Using • Personal interview 97% • Criminal record check 95 • Background investigation 94 • Driving record check 90 • Medical exam 82 • Psychological screen 64 • Drug test 54 • Written aptitude test 46 • Physical agility test 45 • Polygraph exam 18 • Voice stress analyzer 2

  6. Police Officer Performance The difficulty of predicting good police performance: • Screening Methods • Measuring Police Performance • Screening Efforts vs. Actual Job Performance

  7. Equal Employment Opportunity Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act • Race, color, religion, sex, or national origin • Protected class 1972 Equal Employment Opportunity Act 1990 Americans With Disabilities Act

  8. Employment of Racial and Ethnic Minorities Reflect the composition of the community it serves Hispanic and Latino officers Fastest growing population Spanish speaking officers recruited Women More seriously underrepresented than racial or ethnic minorities Concentrated in lower ranks Gay and Lesbian officers Increasingly open over the last 20 years Equal opportunity

  9. Diversity in Police Employment Diversity as a “compelling state interest” Affirmative Action • Executive Order 11246 (1965) • Affirmative Action Plans: • Conduct a census of current employees • Identify underutilization or concentration of minorities and women • Develop a recruiting plan to correct any underutilization Quotas Reverse Discrimination

  10. Training Police Academy • Big departments have own academy • Small departments use state run academies Field training • FTO program • 2/3 of departments use this process

  11. State Training and Certification • Every state has some form of mandated pre-service training for certification • State-required content of training • Decertification

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