CRJU 311 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Joan Grant, Field Training Officer, Christopher Commission
22 Aug 2016
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Aspects of the personnel process: not just a job; it"s a career o o. Minimum qualifications: minimum entrance requirements do not necessarily reflect actual hiring practices. Departments may have higher standards than the minimum. 95% of all departments refuse to hire anyone with a felony conviction. About 25% require officers to live within the jurisdiction. Selecting officers from the recruit pool o. Cohen and chaiken studied nypd officers in 1957. The only factor that correlated with good on the job performance was the recruit training score o. Existing psychological tests (mmpi) do not successfully predict future behavior as a police officer o. Neither psychological testing not clinical assessment by a psychologist correlated with performance during field training o. Psychological evaluation only identified obvious social misfits in the grossest sense. Title vii of the 1964 civil rights act. Outlaws employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex , and national origin.
