Impact of Fanchon Blake v. City of Los Angeles on the Selection, Recruitment, Training, Appointment, and Performance of Women and Minorities for the Los Angeles Police Department and the City of Los Angeles, Volume I

• NCJ Number: 155315
• Date Published: 1990
• Length: 203 pages
• Sponsoring Agency: Haynes (the John Randolph) and Dora Haynes Foundation
• Corporate Author: Claremont Graduate School
• Sale Source: National Institute of Justice/; Claremont Graduate School
• Publication Type: Legislation/Policy Analysis
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America

Annotation

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals decision in Fanchon Blake v. The City of Los Angeles and the subsequent 1981 Federal District Court Consent Decree have altered the criteria for employment as a police officer in the Los Angeles Police Department (L.A.P.D.).

Abstract

The decision has affected law enforcement practices throughout the U.S. in terms of recruitment, training, and appointment standards at all levels of law enforcement within the public sector. The central issue in Blake was not primarily that of women and minorities in police work, but the inherent validity of the hiring practices followed by the L.A.P.D. and the city of Los Angeles. The primary areas of research explored in this study were the background characteristics of police recruits hired before the Consent Decree and those hired subsequent to it, and the effects that increased representation of women and minority officers have had on factors such as interest in police work, academy experiences, probationary success, and police professionalism. Chapter notes, 167 references, and 1 appendix