The effect of court-ordered hiring quotas on the composition and quality of police
By: Justin McCrary
Contributors: National Bureau of Economic Research
Series: NBER working paper series -- working paper 12368; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) -- working paper no. 12368.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Description: "Arguably the most aggressive affirmative action program ever implemented in the United States was a series of court-ordered racial hiring quotas imposed on municipal police departments.  My best estimate of the effect of court-ordered affirmative action on workforce composition is a 14 percentage point gain in the fraction African American among newly hired officers.  Evidence on police performance is mixed.  Despite substantial black-white test score differences on police department entrance examinations, city crime rates appear unaffected by litigation.  However, litigation lowers slightly both arrests per crime and the fraction black among serious arrestees"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
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