1) “LAPD May Relax Its Hiring Rules; Chief Bratton proposes ending zero tolerance of past drug use and bad credit. Some fear that lower standards would bring problem officers.”
Wendy Lee, Times Staff - Writer, Los Angeles Times, August 29, 2005.
2) “A little past coke use OK, says LAPD hiring policy. Police recruitment rules draw the line at meth, heroin,”
BY KERRY CAVANAUGH, Daily News.com 11/01/2006
3) “The Austin, Texas, Police Department has established a prior-use drug policy that revolves around the experimental versus the habitual user.
4) ‘Mile High Cops - Denver - 52 of 80 new police recruits admit to prior drug use -
“Jesse Katz of the Los Angeles Times recently obtained redacted versions of the applications filled out by Denver’s 80 new police recruits last year. Fifty-two of them—that’s 65 percent—confessed to prior drug use. In
surveys of the general population, by contrast, only about half of 18-to-34-year-olds admit to having used an illegal drug.”
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