This study examines enforcement agencies’ online recruiting materials to explore how agencies portray policing, agencies, and diversity.
This study aimed to understand how agencies use online recruiting materials to recruit women officers by assessing the frequency of text, images, and videos depicting women and racially and ethnically diverse individuals, and content related to hiring and the job itself. Characteristics known to discourage women applicants were highlighted prominently in materials. Agencies did not provide consistent messaging about diversity, resources for women, or support for work–life balance. The authors found differences between agencies with higher and lower percentages of women, but they were inconsistent and often in unexpected directions. The authors conducted thematic analysis to understand how policing, the agency, and diversity were portrayed. Law enforcement agencies across the country are struggling to recruit qualified candidates and this problem is pronounced when recruiting demographically diverse officers. Women demonstrate competencies important for effective policing: restoring trust in police, obtaining high case clearance rates, and using less force. (Published Abstract Provided)
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