Improving Recruitment and Retention in the New Orleans Police Department

Rostker, Bernard D.; Hix, William M.; Wilson, Jeremy M.

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“…Hurricane Katrina was an unignorable watershed moment in WTR research after it devastated the city of New Orleans in 2005 and led to 16.5% of New Orleans Police Department officers never reporting to work or abandoning their emergency response role (Barry & Jere, 2005; Treaster, 2005). In the aftermath, officers found themselves isolated without the ability to communicate, vehicles were underwater, and many police lacked basics of life (Rostker et al., 2007). Despite the events of Hurricane Katrina, Quarantelli described the Katrina related role abandonment phenomenon basically as a fluke.…”

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Emergency responder willingness to respond during disasters: A literature review

Knezek

Lee

2021

Contingencies & Crisis Mgmt

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Emergency responder willingness to respond during disasters: A literature review

Knezek

Lee

2021

Contingencies & Crisis Mgmt

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“…As a result, the labor market for police agencies has become more competitive. The greater compensation and benefits that other public service agencies can offer exacerbate this competition (Raymond et al , 2005; Rostker et al , 2007), although recent economic conditions have relieved some competition for recruits.…”

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Articulating the dynamic police staffing challenge

Wilson

2012

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PurposeThis work aims to summarize literature on police recruitment and retention and how changing conditions may affect these. It uses a bucket metaphor to conceptualize and present visually how these can interact with each other and create a dynamic police staffing challenge.Design/methodology/approachThe literature review includes more than 150 works on police recruitment and retention, organized into discussions on the demand for police, the supply of police, and how systemic and episodic changes affect each.FindingsExisting research suggests police agencies face a threefold challenge in meeting the demand for officers: attrition is likely to increase, sources of new recruits might be decreasing, and police responsibilities are expanding. Attrition might increase because of baby‐boom generation retirements, military call‐ups, changing generational expectations of careers, budget crises, and organizational characteristics. Sources of new recruits might be decreasing because of a decrease in the qualified applicant pool, changing generational preferences in selecting careers, increased competition for persons who might qualify as police officers, expanded skill requirements for police officers, uncompetitive benefits, and many of the organizational characteristics causing attrition. Policing responsibilities are expanding because of new roles in community policing, homeland security, and emerging crimes.Originality/valueThis work summarizes, as no other has previously, the extant research on police recruitment and retention. Many holes remain in the literature, but identifying the extant literature can help identify these and possible means to fill them. Reviewing the extant literature can also help agencies identify the proper lessons to face their own recruitment and retention challenges.

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“…Existing research has endeavoured to identify which of these tools are most effective in helping law enforcement administrators minimise employee turnover within the agencies they represent. Enhanced pay, improved benefits, merit-based promotion systems, increased job flexibility, greater recognition of employee achievement, opportunities for promotion and personal fulfillment and more equitable supervisory practices have all been cited as important factors in retaining existing employees and minimising the frequency with which officers leave the policing profession (Lynch and Tuckey, 2004; Orrick, 2008; Rostker et al ., 2007; Wilson et al , 2015). While all of these retention strategies are important considerations for law enforcement agencies, there are two additional commonly cited retention strategies that are of particular concern to the current study.…”

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Form seeking function: An exploratory content analysis evaluation of the imagery contained in law enforcement agency police officer recruitment brochures

Jolicoeur

Grant

2017

The Police Journal: Theory, Practice and Principles

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The current exploratory study incorporates conceptual content analysis as a means of examining the imagery contained within a selected sample of police department recruitment brochures. The study examines the proportional representation of the different policing styles (watchman, legalistic and service) that were identified by Wilson (1968) in the recruitment brochure images ( n = 62) that were analysed. The results indicate that the watchman style was most commonly depicted in the recruitment material images that were included in the study. Additionally, the findings obtained indicate that the bulk of the remaining images contained in the recruitment brochures that were examined depicted a legalistic orientation towards policing, rather than one more aligned with a service orientation. The significance of these findings are examined, specifically as they relate to the officer hiring and retention issues currently facing the American law enforcement profession. Additional discussions evaluate how the results obtained relate to ongoing efforts in many departments to implement a more community-oriented approach to law enforcement. Limitations of the current study are identified and discussed and suggestions for future research are advanced.

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Improving Recruitment and Retention in the New Orleans Police Department

Cited by 9 publications

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Emergency responder willingness to respond during disasters: A literature review

Emergency responder willingness to respond during disasters: A literature review

Articulating the dynamic police staffing challenge

Form seeking function: An exploratory content analysis evaluation of the imagery contained in law enforcement agency police officer recruitment brochures

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