Daily News | Philadelphia’s police should look like Philadelphia. Waiving the residency requirement makes that harder. | Editorial
so that important community policing efforts aren’t hampered by the need to ensure adequate staffing elsewhere.With that in mind, it is worth questioning whether removing the residency requirement is really the best way to handle the recruiting crisis. While 45% of Philadelphians are Black, Black officers make up only 30% of the police force. About 57% of the city’s police officers are white.
Fixing these disparities is an important and much-needed long-term goal for the city. Despite the increased difficulty ofin the wake of the George Floyd protests for racial justice, it is also an achievable goal. We need a more thoughtful and better-resourced recruitment process. Today, the Police Department recruits the same way that many other employers try to identify strong candidates — by placing ads on online jobs boards and setting up recruiting tables at colleges and universities. This approach may have worked in the past, but it isn’t working now. That’s because becoming a police officer is a much more complicated process than most jobs at the career fair.
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