Changing the Guard in American Cities - A Current Empirical Assessment of Integration in Twenty Municipal Police Departments

• NCJ Number: 94277
• Journal: Criminal Justice Review Volume: 9 Issue: 1 Dated: (Spring 1984) Pages: 8-14
• Author(s): E Hochstedler; R M Regoli; E D Poole
• Date Published: 1984
• Length: 7 pages
• Publication Format: Article
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America

Annotation

This paper provides a comparative empirical examination of integration in twenty major city police agencies over a 14-year period.

Abstract

The data indicate that in these twenty agencies, obvious and measurable progress toward affirmative action goals has been realized. Nonetheless, nonwhites as a group are still underrepresented by about 50 percent, blacks are underrepresented about 67 percent, and females are underrepresented by about 85 percent. (Author abstract)