Higher Loyalty, by James Comey: on Civil Rights


Barack Obama: Recruited FBI hiring with 38% non-white new agents

Whether white or black, Latino or Asian, male or female, the annual turnover is about the same--0.5%. Once people experience the environment and the mission at the FBI, they become addicted to it and stay until retirement, despite being paid government salaries and working under incredible stress. Our challenge, I told the FBI, is to simply get out there and show more people of color and more women (that number had been stuck just below 20% for years) what the place is like and dare them to try to be part of it. It's not rocket science, I said; the talent is out there. They just don't know what they are missing. So we made it our passion to show them, and in just three years, the numbers started to change in a material way. [In 2015], during my third year at the FBI, a huge new-agent class at Quantico with 38% non-white. Our standards hadn't changed; we were just doing a better job of showing people the life they could make by joining us, which is contagious in a positive way.
Source: A Higher Loyalty, p.129, by James Comey Apr 17, 2018

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