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<text id=91TT1253>
<title>
June 10, 1991: American Notes:Law Enforcement
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<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
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<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.
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