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Perceptions Of Performance And Behavior Of College Educated Police Officers, Paul Edmund Nagosky
Perceptions Of Performance And Behavior Of College Educated Police Officers, Paul Edmund Nagosky
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Good police applicants are becoming scarcer and many agencies have lowered their hiring standard to fill academy classes. In this labor pool environment is it worth having a college education requirement? Is the performance of college educated officers superior to that of non-college educated officers?
An opinion survey was issued to officers and sergeants of the Chesterfield County Police Department regarding how they felt toward college education and its effect, if any on several aspects of police performance.
In some aspects of performance or behavior, such as sensitivity to minorities, authoritarianism, and use of force, there were slight tendencies for …