Pros And Cons Of Recruiting And Hiring

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Positive implications of Recruiting and Hiring
A diversified police department will allow employees and customers (community members) to feel good, welcome creativity and change the status quo of their environment. This, will increase the community’s confidence in FPD.
Negative implications of Recruiting and Hiring
Recruiting and hiring quality police officers can generally be costly due to recruitment events (job fairs), continuous trainings and officer retention mechanisms (sign-on bonus and pay raises). It is not a guarantee that a more diversified police department will increase the community’s trust or improve the conduct of police officers and citywide staff. African American police officers can abuse the badge and undermine the community’s

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