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How to get better leaders – with Brian Klaas

Daily Politics from the New Statesman

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The Importance of Recruitment for the Police

Every single police officer in Stebenz, Alaska had been convicted of multiple crimes including domestic violence. If you have a self-selection problem that is only producing a narrow field of the population that is power hungry then you are not able to call out the bad people and end up with the good people in charge so recruitment is crucial. New Zealand put a lot of money into an ad campaign called do you care enough to be a cop which depicts policing in these very funny viral videos as something around community service and all of the sudden the demographic profile of applicants changes it expands they get a huge influx of different kinds of police officers.

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