Retention In Law Enforcement Essay

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Diminishing sources of recruitment, increasing causes of attrition, and broadening police responsibilities all shape questions of workforce supply and demand. In these days and times recruitment and retention for Law Enforcement Officers is at an all-time low. When you were a child growing up the teacher would ask what you want to be when you grow up. Some children would stay firefighter, policeman, doctor, nurse, and a teacher, but now when the teacher ask that question students answer to rapper, gangster and drug dealer because they are much more popular than the working class people. It’s cool to have a criminal record now, but when it’s time to enter the working class world the back ground history sets the tone whether you get hired for …show more content…

Some characteristics of the local police organization might become unappealing to officers who decide to pursue work elsewhere. Remember that old saying one bad apple can make all the apples look bad. Well in law enforcement you are hell to a higher standard and if there corruption in the department all law officers are judge. Recruitment for law enforcement officers are down because of all the senseless murdering of police officers going around the country. Qualified civilians nor college students taking Criminal Justice as their major do not want to become law enforcement officer anymore because of what they see in the media like for instances benefits being dropped, officers being slang in the line of duty, the requirements being set so high and also police being misconduct in the public’s eye. All these incidents that the media have viewed about law enforcement has impacted recruiting and retention within law enforcement. Most people applying for law enforcement now can’t work in the field because of their medical history, but according to American Disabilities Act police departments can’t discriminate. More law enforcement officers are needed on the streets not behind desk. It takes about $150,000 per recruit to train. There is no one the money for training can be cut because you want good qualified officers. Police agencies are going

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