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Volume 2 Issue 1, April 2007 |
Helping the New Orleans Police Department with Recruitment and Retention
Hurricane Katrina and the flooding that followed largely disabled the New Orleans Police Department (NOPD). As a result, the NOPD has suffered from unusually high rates of departure from the force and an inability to recruit new officers. RAND Center on Quality Policing researchers conducted a "quick-look study" to help address the NOPD's recruiting and retention problems, drawing on insights gained from decades of working with a number of large governmental organizations on ways to improve the management of their personnel systems, most extensively with the Department of Defense but more recently with several municipal police departments. More »
Reducing Racial Tensions and Improving Police-Community Relations in Cincinnati
In 2001, U.S. Department of Justice reviewed the use of force by the Cincinnati Police Department (CPD). This review, combined with a brief period of civil unrest, sparked partly by several police killings of black residents in a relatively short period, led the CPD to enter into an agreement with local police and civil rights groups to improve police–community relations. RAND's Center on Quality Policing researchers were asked to evaluate progress over a five–year period. The second–year results from the evaluation focused on one of the agreement's key goals: "ensure fair, equitable, and courteous treatment for all" parties in police–community interactions. More »
Assisting the New York Police Department with Firearms Issues and Pedestrian Stops
In the effort to constantly improve police services, the Commissioner of the New York Police Department (NYPD) asked RAND's Center on Quality Policing to conduct two separate assessments of the NYPD. The analyses, one focusing on firearms training and officer–involved shooting investigations and the other on the conduct of pedestrian stops, will be completed by the end of summer 2007.
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