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Ralph A. Weisheit - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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the small town Police Department
Policing-an International Journal of Police Strategies & Management, 2002Co-Authors: David N. Falcone, Edward L Wells, Ralph A. WeisheitAbstract:This conceptual article focuses on the small‐town municipal‐level Police Department, as a distinctive model within the mosaic of US policing. As an example of the success of a low‐tech, nonmilitarized, open systems model, the small‐town Police Department stands in stark contrast to its urban counterpart. As a result of its affinity towards generalization as opposed to specialization, the small‐town Department has higher crime clearance rates and is organizationally receptive to the demands and requirements of community‐oriented policing. The small‐town Police Department’s absence of “professionalism” and militarism is key to its community connectedness, the foundation of its efficacy.
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The small‐town Police Department
Policing: An International Journal of Police Strategies & Management, 2002Co-Authors: David N. Falcone, L. Edward Wells, Ralph A. WeisheitAbstract:This conceptual article focuses on the small‐town municipal‐level Police Department, as a distinctive model within the mosaic of US policing. As an example of the success of a low‐tech, nonmilitarized, open systems model, the small‐town Police Department stands in stark contrast to its urban counterpart. As a result of its affinity towards generalization as opposed to specialization, the small‐town Department has higher crime clearance rates and is organizationally receptive to the demands and requirements of community‐oriented policing. The small‐town Police Department’s absence of “professionalism” and militarism is key to its community connectedness, the foundation of its efficacy.
Michael D White - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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the new york city Police Department its crime control strategies and organizational changes 1970 2009
Justice Quarterly, 2014Co-Authors: Michael D WhiteAbstract:Over the last two decades, New York City has witnessed historic drops in crime. Numerous explanations for this crime decline have been discussed, and the New York City Police Department (NYPD) has been central to that debate, most notably because of the adoption of order maintenance policing and the implementation of Compstat. While those developments in the early 1990s are clearly important for understanding the potential role of the NYPD in the crime decline, those changes did not occur in a vacuum. This paper adopts an historical framework that places the role of the NYPD in the crime decline in the larger context of the Department’s history, culture, and key events over a nearly 40-year span. This perspective suggests that many of the crime control strategies implemented by the NYPD over that time have been driven by internal and external crises, and that these strategies have also produced unintended consequences. With the historical analysis as a backdrop, the paper considers the ongoing debate over...
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Race, gender, and motivation for becoming a Police officer: Implications for building a representative Police Department
Journal of Criminal Justice, 2004Co-Authors: Anthony J. Raganella, Michael D WhiteAbstract:Police Departments have come under increasing pressure from community groups, professional organizations, and their constituents to hire more female and minority officers. Although prior research suggested that there might be both gender and racial differences in the factors influencing the decision to enter Police work, much of the work was dated and findings were mixed. The current research, conducted in spring 2002, examined motivations for entering Police work among a sample of 278 academy recruits in the New York City Police Department (NYPD). Findings indicated that motivations for becoming a Police officer were similar regardless of race or gender, and the most influential factors were altruistic and practical, specifically the opportunity to help others, job benefits, and security. Minor differences did emerge among male and female recruits, as well as among Whites, Hispanics, and African Americans, but the practical implications of those differences seemed limited. The article concludes with a discussion of implications for recruitment efforts as Police Departments seek to draw more diverse applicant pools and build more representative law enforcement agencies.
Salomon Alcocer Guajardo - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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women in policing a longitudinal assessment of female officers in supervisory positions in the new york city Police Department
Women & Criminal Justice, 2016Co-Authors: Salomon Alcocer GuajardoAbstract:This study examined the growth in the number of female officers in supervisory and command positions (i.e., sergeant to bureau chief) in the New York City Police Department (NYPD) from 2000 to 2013. Time and annual percent changes in the number of male officers, the number of male officers in supervisory and command positions, and the number of female officers served as predictors. An ordinary least squares regression analysis failed to produce statistically significant results for the growth in the number of female officers in supervisory and command positions. The regression analysis also produced statistically nonsignificant results for changes in the level of disparity among male and female officers in supervisory and command positions. Over the past 13 years, female officers have made little progress in advancing to supervisory and command positions in the NYPD.
David N. Falcone - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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the small town Police Department
Policing-an International Journal of Police Strategies & Management, 2002Co-Authors: David N. Falcone, Edward L Wells, Ralph A. WeisheitAbstract:This conceptual article focuses on the small‐town municipal‐level Police Department, as a distinctive model within the mosaic of US policing. As an example of the success of a low‐tech, nonmilitarized, open systems model, the small‐town Police Department stands in stark contrast to its urban counterpart. As a result of its affinity towards generalization as opposed to specialization, the small‐town Department has higher crime clearance rates and is organizationally receptive to the demands and requirements of community‐oriented policing. The small‐town Police Department’s absence of “professionalism” and militarism is key to its community connectedness, the foundation of its efficacy.
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The small‐town Police Department
Policing: An International Journal of Police Strategies & Management, 2002Co-Authors: David N. Falcone, L. Edward Wells, Ralph A. WeisheitAbstract:This conceptual article focuses on the small‐town municipal‐level Police Department, as a distinctive model within the mosaic of US policing. As an example of the success of a low‐tech, nonmilitarized, open systems model, the small‐town Police Department stands in stark contrast to its urban counterpart. As a result of its affinity towards generalization as opposed to specialization, the small‐town Department has higher crime clearance rates and is organizationally receptive to the demands and requirements of community‐oriented policing. The small‐town Police Department’s absence of “professionalism” and militarism is key to its community connectedness, the foundation of its efficacy.
Steve Herbert - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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policing space territoriality and the los angeles Police Department
1997Co-Authors: Steve HerbertAbstract:"Policing Space" examines the Los Angeles Police Department as an agency of territoriality. Based upon ethnographic fieldwork, the book explicates the variety of ways in which officers pursue strategies of social control through spatial control. Effective territorial control, the book demonstrates, is essential to effective policing. "Policing Space" also explains the dominant motivations behind Police territoriality through use of the concept of "normative order," which is defined as a set of rules and practices centered around a primary value. Six such orders -- law, bureaucratic control, adventure/machismo, safety, competence and morality -- shape how officers define and attempt to control space. The importance of each normative order is amply illustrated with numerous vignettes from the fieldwork. The book contributes to a wide variety of literatures, including those concerning state theory, geography and the law, and the social organization of policing.
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the normative ordering of Police territoriality making and marking space with the los angeles Police Department
Annals of The Association of American Geographers, 1996Co-Authors: Steve HerbertAbstract:Abstract The power of Police officers to shape social action depends fundamentally on their capacity to control space. Without effective territorial strategies, Police officers would be unable to create order in the majority of incidents they handle. This paper draws upon fieldwork in one patrol division of the Los Angeles Police Department to illustrate the significance of territoriality to Police efforts at social control. The fieldwork illuminates the complex structuring influences on the processes by which officers define and seek to control the spaces they patrol. Legal and bureaucratic stipulations shape Police territoriality, but so too do subcultural norms and values. I mobilize the concept of a “normative order”—defined as a set of rules and practices that are structured around a central value—as a means of capturing the mix of influences on Police efforts at socio-spatial control. The discussion explains how six of those orders—the law, bureaucratic control, adventure/machismo, safety, competenc...
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the geopolitics of the Police foucault disciplinary power and the tactics of the los angeles Police Department
Political Geography, 1996Co-Authors: Steve HerbertAbstract:Abstract This paper uses the insights of Foucault to analyze the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) as an agency of discipline. It takes Foucault's injunction to study the ‘how’ of power seriously, using insights from ethnographic fieldwork with the Los Angeles Police Department to assess Foucault's general formulations concerning disciplinary power. The fieldwork reveals that the LAPD does indeed engage in a series of technologically and organizationally sophisticated practices to monitor and control the populace. However, it also reveals the need to remember Foucault's more cautionary programmatics in analyzing an agency such as the LAPD; dynamics both internal and external to the Police organization limit the reach of its surveillance capacities. The disciplinary network of the LAPD is much more restricted, complex and contradictory than a simplistic Foucauldian reading would suggest.
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morality in law enforcement chasing bad guys with the los angeles Police Department
Law & Society Review, 1996Co-Authors: Steve HerbertAbstract:Police officers regularly construct their work in terms of a morality that is so pronounced that it must arise from unique aspects of their role in society. The author draws on fieldwork conducted in a patrol division of the Los Angeles Police Department to develop an explanation for the prevalence of Police morality. Three components of the Police function create potent dilemmas that their morality helps ameliorate : the contradiction between the Police's ostensible aim to prevent crime and their inability to do so; the imperative that they run roughshod over the ambiguity inherent in most situations they handle; and the fact that they invariably act against at least one citizen's interest, often with recourse to a coercive force that can maim or kill. Reliance on moralistic understandings for the Police's mission provides a salve for these difficulties; however, it can also work to harm Police-community relations. Paradoxically, the Police's reliance on morality can encourage or condone overly aggressive actions that are, in fact, contradictory to the virtuous self-definition officers often construct
