TY  - JOUR
AU  - McCrary,Justin
TI  - The Effect of Court-Ordered Hiring Quotas on the Composition and Quality of Police
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 12368
PY  - 2006
Y2  - July 2006
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w12368
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w12368.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Justin McCrary
School of Law
University of California, Berkeley
586 Simon Hall
Berkeley, CA 94720-7200
Tel: (510) 643-6252
E-Mail: jmccrary@law.berkeley.edu
M2  - featured in NBER digest on 2006-07-24
AB  - 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.
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