I just spent a half hour on my radio program
with Dr. John Lott, author of "More Guns,
Less Crime". But that was not the subject of
the conversation.
Dr Lott, who is a senior research scholar
at Yale University, has just published a
paper entitled, "Does A Helping Hand Put
Others At Risk?:Affirmative Action, Police
Departments,and Crime."
Let me quote directly from the paper:
"...I find that hiring more blacks and minority police officers increases crime rates,but this apparently arises because lower hiring standards involved in recruiting more minority officers reduces the quality of both new minority and new nonminority officers."
Dr Lott told me this study may be more important that the one which led to his 1998
book,"More Guns, Less Crime", but that the
media is largely ignoring it due to its
sensitive nature. He feels the problems he has found with court-mandated hiring practices are clearly having a negative impact on the quality of law enforcement in America.
I stumbled upon the report a few days ago at the following site: www.ssrn.com
That's the home page of the Social Science Research Network. When you log on, type
the name LOTT in the search feature and
scroll down until you see the title.
[This message has been edited by Sport (edited August 30, 2000).]
with Dr. John Lott, author of "More Guns,
Less Crime". But that was not the subject of
the conversation.
Dr Lott, who is a senior research scholar
at Yale University, has just published a
paper entitled, "Does A Helping Hand Put
Others At Risk?:Affirmative Action, Police
Departments,and Crime."
Let me quote directly from the paper:
"...I find that hiring more blacks and minority police officers increases crime rates,but this apparently arises because lower hiring standards involved in recruiting more minority officers reduces the quality of both new minority and new nonminority officers."
Dr Lott told me this study may be more important that the one which led to his 1998
book,"More Guns, Less Crime", but that the
media is largely ignoring it due to its
sensitive nature. He feels the problems he has found with court-mandated hiring practices are clearly having a negative impact on the quality of law enforcement in America.
I stumbled upon the report a few days ago at the following site: www.ssrn.com
That's the home page of the Social Science Research Network. When you log on, type
the name LOTT in the search feature and
scroll down until you see the title.
[This message has been edited by Sport (edited August 30, 2000).]