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The Effect of Court-Ordered Hiring Quotas on the Composition and Quality of Police / Justin McCrary.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McCrary, Justin.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w12368.
- NBER working paper series no. w12368
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2006.
- Summary:
- Arguably the most aggressive affirmative action program ever implemented in the United States was a series of court-ordered racial hiring quotas imposed on municipal police departments. My best estimate of the effect of court-ordered affirmative action on workforce composition is a 14 percentage point gain in the fraction African American among newly hired officers. Evidence on police performance is mixed. Despite substantial black-white test score differences on police department entrance examinations, city crime rates appear unaffected by litigation. However, litigation lowers slightly both arrests per crime and the fraction black among serious arrestees.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- July 2006.
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