Brooklyn Park Police Looks to Increase Diversity in Department

When Brooklyn Park Police Chief Mark Bruley became the city's top cop in the summer of 2022, adding officers of color to the police force became one of his top priorities. Bruley credits the Police Cadet Program as being the city's most successful tool in diversifying its police department, which has grown from six percent of officers of color in 2010, to 22 percent in 2022. "They tell me it's because I have friends that work there that look like me and they're happy, they love it here and think it's a great place to work," stated Bruley. "That's when things are working right."

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[tmjtpyd]

Which color though? There are so many to choose from that quantify a human

[mnstorm]

There is a great lack of candidates these days as mentioned by the Crystal Police Chief a year or so ago in a city forum. With that said, I'm ok with hiring POC that are EQUALLY qualified over someone else for the sake of representation. But also, at the end of the day, a question I don't know the answer to is if there are as many POC seeking the job?
Equality is a goal we should all be striving for, but the definitions of equiality often get blurred by bad data and making decisions strictly for the reasons of "equal".