全球智库信息集成服务系统

Abstract

The Los Angeles Police Department is seeking to increase its force to more than 10,000 officers. RAND researchers devised strategies for the city to improve recruiting and increase the efficiency of the hiring process. Among other initiatives, the researchers suggested recruiting in relatively underexploited areas, tailoring efforts to specific groups the department wishes to recruit, prioritizing candidates with certain characteristics linked to successful applicants, and increasing teamwork between background investigators and personnel analysts.

The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) is in the middle of a five-year campaign to increase its number of sworn officers by 1,000 and achieve a force strength of more than 10,000 officers for the first time in its history. It is also operating under consent decrees to achieve greater diversity in its hiring of officers. Working with the city personnel department's Public Safety Bureau, the LAPD is making progress toward these goals. In early 2009, the city's mayor and police chief announced that the LAPD had 9,895 officers, a new record for the department.