Research Catalog

Title

Diversity, affirmative action, and law enforcement / [edited] by George T. Felkenes and Peter Charles Unsinger.

Publication

Springfield, Ill., U.S.A. : Thomas, c1992.

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Additional Authors

• Felkenes, George T.
• Unsinger, Peter C.

Description

xi, 212 p.; 26 cm.

Summary

Focusing on issues that have implications for every law enforcement agency in the United States, these seven papers examine the impact of a 1980 Federal district court consent decree concerning affirmative action on police recruitment, selection, training, and employment in the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) and the City of Los Angeles. In 1973, a female sergeant in the LAPD filed a complaint alleging that the city of Los Angeles engaged in employment discrimination based on sex. Subsequently, a complaint was filed by the U.S. Attorney in Federal court alleging also that the City and the LAPD had practiced employment discrimination on the basis of sex, race, and national origin. The Blake Consent Decree included within its requirements the essence of affirmative action and diversity in law enforcement. Individual papers in this volume focus on the characteristics of police academy training classes, models of police demographics before and after the decree, the evaluation of the positive and negative effects of the decree, legal rights of minorities and women resulting from their political emergence in American society, and police attitudes. Tables, figure, name and subject indexes, list of court cases, and appended survey form.

Subject

• Police > Case studies. > Los Angeles
• Affirmative action programs > Los Angeles > Case studies
• Police > Selection and appointment > United States
• Police > Recruiting > United States
• Affirmative action programs > United States

Genre/Form

Case studies

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Chap. 1. Affirmative action : concept, development and legality / George T. Felkenes -- Chap. 2. Administration of affirmative action policies / George T. Felkenes -- Chap. 3. Affirmative action and the law / Bernadette Jones Palombo -- Chap. 4. Attitudes, training, performance and retention of female and minority police officers / Bernadette Jones Palombo (assisted by Nancy Demarais) -- Chap. 5. Recruitment, hiring, and promotion of women and racial minorities in law enforcement / Lawrence C. Trostle -- Chap. 6. Case study of a departmental response to affirmative action mandates : th Los Angeles Police Department / Michael Hooper -- Fulfilling the mandates of the law : the consent decrees and compliance / James Lasley -- Appendix A. Selected provisions of Title VII of Civil Rights Act, 42 U.S.C. 2000E et seq. -- Appendix B. LAPD officers survey -- Court cases.

ISBN

039805777X (cloth)

LCCN

^^^91040502^//r92

OCLC

• 25050373
• SCSB-10324459

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library