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- <text id=91TT1253>
- <title>
- June 10, 1991: American Notes:Law Enforcement
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- June 10, 1991 Evil
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- NATION, Page 25
- American Notes
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Wanted: Ethnic G-Persons
- </hdr><body>
- <p> Are you intelligent, curious, persistent, tough and straight
- as a laser beam? If you are all of the above--and also black,
- Hispanic, Asian Native American or a woman--you may qualify
- for the Federal Bureau of Investigation and get your college
- tuition paid by the government.
- </p>
- <p> This month FBI director William Sessions will ask Congress
- for legislation creating an FBI version of the time-honored
- ROTC (Reserve Officers Training Corps) program to recruit
- minority students who need fi nancial aid to finish college.
- Sessions' aim is to bring ethnic and gender diversity to the
- bureau, whose 10,094 special agents include just 485 blacks, 557
- Hispanics, 135 Asians, 39 Native Americans and 1,078 women.
- </p>
- <p> One reason for recruiting more ethnic agents: they are
- needed to penetrate organized crime, which is increasingly
- populated by black, Hispanic and Asian gangsters. There is
- another motive: two major discrimination suits have been brought
- against the FBI by minority agents in the past four years, and
- the bureau is seeking to clean up its reputation for in-house
- bigotry.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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