Carl Matthies

This book helps the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) achieve its recruiting and diversity goals by offering ways to improve productivity and efficiency in the recruiting process. It identifies potential untapped recruiting markets, provides a model of viable candidates to target recruitment and prioritize applicants while still reaching diversity hiring goals, and recommends ways to improve background-investigation processes.

The San Diego Police Department (SDPD) has been operating below its authorized size in recent years. To bridge its personnel gap, the department needs to maximize its recruiting while minimizing officer attrition. To accomplish this goal, the department sought assistance from RAND to improve its recruiting efforts and suggest ways to improve the diversity of its recruits. This monograph describes RAND's effort to assist SDPD's recruiting program. The San Diego Police Department has been operating below its authorized size in recent years. To bridge this gap, the department needs to maximize recruiting and minimize attrition. This book details RAND's effort to improve this recruiting program.