id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentence	flesch	summary	cache	txt
commonwealth-480	Finkenbinder, Karen	Residency Requirements for First Responders	2009	13	.pdf	application/pdf	4198	244	51	An analysis of the Miami-Dade Police Department concluded that residency requirements (often invoked to increase the number of minority employees) so narrowed the applicant pool that they were a factor in increasing the incompetence of the force.19 An examination of consent decrees that impose race-conscious hiring found that such practices encourage lowering qualifying standards to permit hiring of recruits with less education and more criminal and financial problems.20 Employees often oppose such requirements for quality-of-life reasons. Opponents to residency requirements often tout that such requirements force the hiring of less-qualified applicants (particularly those with criminal records).	cache/commonwealth-480.pdf	txt/commonwealth-480.txt