Word: recruitable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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More than Anything. One of the most damning facts about the L.A. department is that its force of 4,000 has only 220 blacks. Police departments have assiduously sought to recruit Negro officers in the past few years, but most of them have not had much success (Exceptions: Washington, 21% of the force; Philadelphia, 20%; Chicago, 17%). Negro policemen are often looked on as Judases when they put on the blue uniform. "More than anything," laments a black patrolman in Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant, "I want my people to like me. But they just don't like cops. This suit...
Outmoded administrative systems that force every recruit to start off in the lowest rank discourage the educated and the enterprising from becoming policemen. Every would-be police chief has to serve a menial apprenticeship; no one from outside, regardless of his qualifications, can come in at the middle. Some, like Reddin, favor lateral entry, commonplace in every other organization, but none have succeeded in changing the ossified structure of the police establishment. Pay is equally out of date; the median for patrolmen in big cities...
Before long, Dunfey inns will have another feature. In August, when the entire 13-member clan jets to Dublin for a reunion on the ould sod, the family plans to recruit local barmaid talent to staff "Dunfey's Taverns," being set up in the family establishments...
Through a mixture of back-room negotiation and public pressure the black students convinced Harvard to announce its intention to recruit more black high school students, and to study and presumably improve its course offerings in Afro-American Studies...
...university became the target are not too hard to see. There was a rational progression to it all. The Dow sit-ins of the fall protested first the corporation's manufacture of napalm, and then the university's sanction of it by allowing Dow to use university facilities to recruit future napalm-makers...