Eighty new men and women are joining the Chicago Police Department, reflecting the city's efforts to recruit more minority officers.
CHICAGO -- Eighty new men and women are joining the Chicago Police Department, reflecting the city's efforts to recruit more minority officers. They graduated Tuesday in a ceremony at Navy Pier.
The 27-year-old college educated father from the South Side is among the 80 most recent graduates from CPD's academy. It's a class police say is 68% minority and 26% female. The homegrown cop is prepared to hit the streets as data from a July 2021 report by the city's inspector general's office found that Black applicants are far less likely to get on the force than their white or Latino counterparts.
The IG report also found that while Black candidates make up 37% of the applicant pool, only 18% of them are ultimately invited to the police academy. Meanwhile, the proportion of Asian, Latinx and white candidates increased.
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