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You also have to bypass the normal methods that small-city governments often use for recruitment, such as asking your current employees if they have any friends or family who would like to work for your department. That itself is often fraught, as no matter how sensible this is, your current officers are going to resent having something such as the ability to help friends find jobs taken away from them.
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This is the only area where I think it would help the community from an external point of view. First dibs should go to people who live in the community, second goes to "by-name" requests. The article didn't dive into the possibility of whether or not Ferguson actually has a qualified and willing pool to draw from...which I don't know for sure, but suspect they don't.