Exam 3: Police Human Resources

The recruitment, selection, training, development, and retention of police officers are of critical importance to any police department.

Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act was the first federal legislative action to prohibit discrimination in employment.

__________ is a system of beliefs that attempts to justify differential treatment of women.

The primary motivation, historically, for integrating police departments was lawsuits and court orders.

The court in __________ found a police department negligent for not performing a psychological assessment of its applicants.

Given the importance of the police selection process and, indeed, the total police human resource system, one must consider the implications of __________ laws and court decisions as they relate to police personnel policies; these legal mandates provide parameters for administrative decisions about human resource policies. a. equal employment opportunity (EEO) b. procedural c. substantive d. criminal

Gender ideology is a system of beliefs that attempts to justify differential treatment of women.

One condition that affected police personnel systems, __________, protects individuals falling into certain classifications from discrimination.

Basic __________ curricula are usually developed through some form of job analysis. The job analysis is used to specify the various tasks performed by officers and to identify the knowledge, skills, and abilities required to perform the various tasks.

__________ entails constant monitoring of officer qualifications and a determination of what types of personnel are required by the department.

The percentage of African-American police officers is about _____%, which closely approximates the percentage of African-Americans in the general population.

Officer election standards are rooted in court decisions and __________ laws and reflect the department's concerns about what types of individuals can perform police work at an acceptable level.

In the case of ________, the U.S. Supreme Court established new standards by which to judge the existence of discrimination in agencies.

The first African-American police officer in the United States was employed in __________, in 1861.

Only about __________ of local police departments have any college requirement at all.

Some departments recruit officers from around the country, but others have strict __________ requirements limiting recruitment within the local jurisdiction or state.

Many African-American citizens consider police work a desirable vocation.

Over _____% of all police departments require a physical agility test during the selection process.

Gaines and Kappeler (1992) stressed that personnel systems should be designed to screen out applicants as opposed to screening in applicants.

__________ training is designed to provide veteran officers with new skills or to update them on changes in the law, criminal procedures, departmental procedures, or general police procedures.