What kind of recruits does $9 million buy?
After a spending more than $9 million on a recruitment drive aimed at creating greater racial diversity on the force, the New York City Police Department achieved modest increases in the number of black, Hispanic and city-resident applicants, a partial victory hailed by NYPD officials but blasted by critics as too little, too late. The number of applicants who signed up for the written exam administered on Oct. 2 did rise from the 14,202 recorded in 1998 to a total of 15,200 this year. But that figure is still far below the more than the 21,657 people who took the test in 1997, and even further from the record of nearly 32,000 who did so in 1996… –top– FHP takes a tiger by the tail: Profiling furor prompts traffic-stop data collection Prompted by the growing public perception that traffic stops often have more to do with motorists race than their driving skills, the Florida Highway Patrol has decided to get in front of the issue and implement the states first road-stop data collect
