NCJ Number
83019
Date Published
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Annotation
National Urban League (NUL) officials address the goals and accomplishments of the LEAA-funded Law Enforcement Minority Manpower Project (LEMMP). Several LEMMP programs are highlighted.
Abstract
LEMMP's goals are to increase minority employment in police and other criminal justice agencies, enhance police-community relations by having more minorities on police forces, and involve the black/minority communities more actively in crime prevention and deterrence. Traditional responses to crime are compared to LEMMP's more innovative approaches. LEMMP minority recruitment program in northern Virginia, for example; sought to recruit mainly professionally oriented minorities with college educations. Cooperation with local black colleges provided many positive results, and 1,175 people have applyed to date. Because usually 1 out of 10 applicants is accepted in police recruitment programs, even more intensive recruitment efforts are needed toa chieve an equitable number of minority officers in these jurisdictions' police forces. In Pennsylvania, 200 vacancies on the State police force provided the opportunity for aggressive minority recruitment, although hindrances to the actual hiring of minority officers appeared throughout the process.