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Despite high unemployment rate, law enforcement slots hard to fill

A couple of seemingly related recent stories about law-enforcement recruitment caught my eye:First, in Dallas, the Sheriff's Office had 200 people take the test to become deputies, but only 50 passed the written test and just 16 of those met the physical requirements, reported Kevin Krause at the Dallas News Crime Blog. "Those 16 will now go on to the next phase -- a background check, a psychological evaluation and a polygraph test."That's a pretty poor ratio of successful applicants.Last month at The Crime Report, an article by a pair of academics examined long-term hiring trends for police and corrections officers:A study we concluded last year, shows that the median age of U.S. police officers increased five years to 38.7 years between 1991 and 2008, while the median age for correctional officers increased by seven years to 40...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on January 04, 2010 (boomark / email).