Using behavioral insights to help recruit diverse police candidates: An interview with Elizabeth Linos, University of California, Berkeley – Episode #170

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Attracting a police force from diverse backgrounds is one important step in ensuring that citizens are well served by their police departments and have trust in the police. But what steps can police departments take that are effective in achieving that goal?

The Behavioral Insights Team, in conjunction with the What Works Cities Initiative, set out to work with more than 20 police departments to build credible evidence on that topic, including running randomized trials to test out different recruiting messages and other steps. The results are described is the report Behavioral Insights for Building the Police Force of Tomorrow.

To learn more, we are joined by Dr. Elizabeth Linos (@ElizabethLinos) who was one of the authors of the report. She is a professor of public policy at University of California, Berkeley, and is the former vice president and head of research and evaluation at the Behavioral Insights Team in North America.

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