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A 25 page paper. This paper begins with a historical overview of Affirmative Action in the U.S., laws, executive orders, intent and interpretation. The next section discusses what diversity hiring really means and includes some examples of private sector companies and their efforts towards diversity. The differences between affirmative action and diversity are explained. The remainder of this essay addresses diversity hiring in law enforcement agencies, primarily police departments. Specific examples about efforts and results or lack of effort are provided. Specific police departments are used as example. Topics include efforts, strategies some departments are using, advantages and some cautions. Bibliography lists 14 sources.
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with a historical account of Affirmative Action and how the laws came to be interpreted. The essay then discusses diversity hiring. The actual wording of the laws and executive orders
about Affirmative Action are not the same thing as how they were subsequently interpreted and implemented. Furthermore, the resistance of agencies as well as the negative attitude of employees, e.g.,
police officers, are very often founded in the ways in which affirmative action programs were designed and enforced. These are the reasons for spending time explaining these laws. Diversity and
equity are more in line with each other than are Affirmative Action and equity. Following this background information, the essay will discuss diversity hiring in law enforcement agencies. It
is important to realize that policies and practices related to diversity hiring differ from agency to agency so, for example, the policies in law enforcement agencies in San Francisco, California
would not be the same policies as those found in Redding, California or in Poughkeepsie, New York. Affirmative Action - What is It? (Question #3) Affirmative Action means
taking positive steps "to increase the representation of women and minorities in areas of employment, education, and business from which they have been historically excluded" (Fullinwider, 2005). Affirmative Action has
an extremely long history in the United States, equity per se, has an even longer history. The earliest laws were designed to specifically help African-Americans be afforded the same opportunities
as Whites (Sykes, 1995). Consider: the 14th Amendment to the Constitution guaranteed equal protection to all citizens; the 15th Amendment prohibited racial discrimination in voting rights; the Civil Rights Act
of 1866 gave all citizens the right to "make and enforce contracts" (Sykes, 1995). In Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the separate but
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