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[[image - black & white photograph of men standing in front of graphs and posters]] (Continued from previous page) recruitment plan that can be adapted by any city in the nation. The Urban League received a $349,499 grant from LEAA technical assistance funds to carry out the Law Enforcement Minority Manpower Project (LEMMP). A major purpose of LEMMP is to discover the reasons why minorities don't participate fully in the criminal justice system, and to make recommendations for removing existing impediments. In addition, LEMMP will recommend new innovations in recruitment techniques to be used by law enforcement agencies. LEMMP also will seek to improve the relationship between the criminal justice system and the minority community by making minorities more aware of opportunities available for employment. Through the local Urban Leagues, and their coalitions of citizens' organizations, LEMMP is conducting a special effort in the target cities to acquaint people with the potential of such jobs as policemen and policewomen, sheriffs, sheriffs' aides, court reporters, court clerks, corrections officers, probation officers, and criminal justice instructors, among others. Although LEMMP has been operational for only five months, the project staff reported these gains: -Cleveland. The filing for the police and fire examination was the largest in the city's history. Of the total of 2,845 who filed, there were 526 minority applicants who passed the examination. The project had had contact with 320 of these applicants. -Newark. The filing for the police department examination was the largest in the city for many years. Filing included 670 minority applicants. The project had contact with 107 applicants. (Figures include 18 probation officers, and 20 corrections and parole staff positions.) -Dallas. The police department had continuous minority recruitment well before the project began. However, LEMMP reported substantial success and by the end of three months had interviewed 68 persons. Of these, eight were hired by the police department, 12 in parole, one in corrections, and the others are being processed. -The project has trained applicants to pass examinations in the criminal justice field and hopes to obtain jobs for them. For example, the project is training and hopes to place eight police cadets in Dallas and four police cadets in Cleveland. The overall project is directed by Jack L. Highsmith, formerly the director of New York City's program of release-on-recognizance and at one time a New York City police officer. In Newark the project is directed by Thomas Mann, formerly a recruiting officer employed by the Newark Urban League; in Cleveland by James Barrett, a former Cleveland police officer and the assistant law director to former Mayor Carl Stokes: and in Dallas by Edgar Lackey, previously the director of Opportunities Industrialization Center, a national organization which conducts job training of minorities. A new brochure about LEMMP - Want To do A Job? - is being distributed nationwide by project staff. The brochure points out: "Through the operation of LEMMP, opportunities will be created for blacks and other minorities to move into the criminal justice system as wage earners and as citizens involved in improving LAW ENFORCEMENT MINORITY MANPOWER PROJECT Jack L. Highsmith, National Project Director National Urban League 477 Madison Avenue New York, N.Y. 10022 Garrett Obey, Assistant Director Susan Grant, Administrative Secretary [[line]] Thomas Mann, Local Project Director Essex County Urban League 508 Central Avenue Newark, New Jersey James Barrett, Local Project Director Cleveland Urban League 2060 Euclid Avenue Cleveland, Ohio Edgar Lackey, Local Project Director Dallas Urban League 2606 Forest Avenue, Suite #211 Dallas, Texas [[line]]
