Recruiting and Retaining America's Finest : Evidence-based Lessons for Police Workforce Planning
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| Title: | Recruiting and Retaining America's Finest : Evidence-based Lessons for Police Workforce Planning |
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| Description: | Shares results of a survey, sent to every U.S. police agency with at least 300 sworn officers, on recruitment and retention practices. Finds that police compensation, city size, and crime rates affected recruiting. Advertising and incentives had little effect on the number of recruits. Cohort sizes highlighted management challenges. To facilitate comparative and longitudinal staffing analyses, ongoing national data collection is recommended. |
| Authors: | Wilson, Jeremy M., Fan, Cha-Chi, Rostker, Bernard, Rand Center on Quality Policing |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Police--United States--Personnel management, Police--Recruiting--United States |
| Categories: | BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Infrastructure, SOCIAL SCIENCE / General |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | Shares results of a survey, sent to every U.S. police agency with at least 300 sworn officers, on recruitment and retention practices. Finds that police compensation, city size, and crime rates affected recruiting. Advertising and incentives had little effect on the number of recruits. Cohort sizes highlighted management challenges. To facilitate comparative and longitudinal staffing analyses, ongoing national data collection is recommended. |
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| ISBN: | 9780833050687 9780833051141 |
