By Stephen Owsinski With the ongoing recruitment and retention crisis in law enforcement, police agencies have stepped up their efforts to encourage potential candidates by hitting the road, exposing the uniqueness and fulfillment in serving the citizenry as sworn first responders or any of the array of non-sworn roles comprising a crime-fighting and community service Read more »
By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D Police work has been an attractive employment prospect for a long time for a variety of reasons. Pay has improved, employment is relatively secure, pensions are offered, there are opportunities for promotion and varied assignments, and the job itself can be very rewarding despite its dangers. For most of Read more »
By Stephen Owsinski Is the police recruiting pendulum swinging the other way? We sure can hope so. The dwindled number of cops out there can breathe a sigh of relief from this showing of interest by courageous individuals rallying the road to don a justice badge. A recent significant turnout of trooper candidates seeking sworn Read more »
By Steve Pomper Jim Glennon: “In 1970, 12% of the population was considered obese. By 2016, that number rose to 37% based on the… same criteria.” I wanted to revisit a question. Is it that cops don’t want to do the job? No. That’s not it. Is it that they can’t do the job because officials Read more »
By Stephen Owsinski Law enforcement agency recruitment efforts persist…but are the ranks rising after the anti-police party mauled morale and spurred an exodus of cops? While signals still echo a depletion of the nation’s law enforcement officers, with police department and sheriff’s office recruiters compelled to go outside the usual/local boundaries (some recently flew to Read more »
By Stephen Owsinski Two things in law enforcement are relatively certain nowadays: the overall number of police officers is down around the country (thanks to anti-cop and defund-the-police fools) and military members make some of the best prospective police candidates. With these factors, police recruiters from across the nation are showing up at military bases Read more »
By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) has spawned a new layer of management and influence in business, industry, government, education, medicine, and criminal justice. In many ways, law enforcement has been at the forefront of moving toward inclusion of women and minorities in hiring and leadership. At the outset let Read more »
By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D A recent study makes the police recruiting crisis sound even bleaker. A sample headline reads “Recent college grads are ’emotionally’ unprepared for 9 to 5 jobs, study shows”. The research cited was conducted by a team who conducted an online survey of over 1000 adults between the ages of Read more »
By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D The current recruitment crisis in law enforcement is not new to the profession. In the late 1970s through the mid-1980s, police agencies around the U.S. were under fire for their hiring practices. Miami, Florida is an example of the lessons that must not be forgotten. This spate of corruption Read more »
By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D I recently went for my annual eye exam. I should have asked the optometrist if I have suffered any permanent damage from rolling my eyes so much. Brooklyn Center, a suburb of Minneapolis, posted a recruiting video on its website that has raised the ire of a few dozen Read more »