Personnel directors from 76 Texas cities assessed the Uniform Guidelines’ impact and described their jurisdictions’ procedures for selecting police officers. Sixty percent felt that the Guidelines had little or no effect on their cities’ procedures while 37 percent said their city now uses more valid, varied, or standardized selection information because of federal requirements. Only three percent said the Guidelines had caused their city to abandon good selection instruments or be less willing to innovate their standardize procedures.
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