The Police Culture CHAPTER LEARNING OBJECTIVES O • Describe the various ways in which the police subculture conflicts with the official norms and values of policing. • Compare and contrast the various forms of an organization’s culture. • Identify and elaborate on variables that influence police officers’ acceptance of the subculture. • Describe the positive aspects of the police subculture. • Identify the sources of police stress. • Highlight the various strategies that both organizations and
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Police Brutality Police Brutality Prof. Carolyn Snell CRMJ 470 Claflin University of Orangeburg Abstract Police brutalities have left many victims in a state of emotional and physical stress, and in some cases, the victims did not survive. Most police brutality occurs during the course of arrest and within the dispute of other incidents in the street or public places. Some of these events even occur while the arrest suspect is already in handcuffs and in police custody, on the way to
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duties, and leadership roles Melissa Carpenter Genesee Community College Author Note This paper was prepared for Administration in Criminal Justice 205, Section 99, taught by Professor Bushen Abstract: The journey of women in policing and police leadership has been long and strewn with obstacles and issues. The aim of this paper is to examine and discuss women in the policing. This paper will attempt to discuss the struggles and problems women face when taking a leadership role. This paper
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Good to Great Policing: Analysis and Commentary ‘Good is the enemy of great’ Wexler, Wycoff, Fischer and the Police Executive Research Forum (PERF, 2007) transformed the concept of Collins’ book ‘Good to Great’ to suit the police. The police Service is what its name says. This is a service oriented organisation with the general public as its customer. On a daily basis, these two elements interacts and the ensuing result is often undesirable. Understanding this the PERF acknowledge the need to improve
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profound effects in communities where majority of the population are minorities, specifically African Americans and Hispanics. Not only are communities affected, but so are police officers. Due to the frequent use of this practice, community members are displeased which resulted in negative perceptions of the police. Today, police officers must take careful consideration of their actions because of the recent controversial matters regarding Michael Brown, Eric Garner, and others. Many criminal justice
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The communities York Regional Police serves are continually evolving. There are significant challenges to police leaders seeking creative ways to deliver services effectively and economically. Some factors contributing to these challenges include the changing nature and sophistication of crime, technology, economic constraints, and the pressure on police services to assist with social issues ranging from mental health, addiction, homelessness, and community marginalization. The new thinking
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which is similar to public policing, this is to blend in with the environment and also used as asset protection. The vision between public policing and private security has been a little blurred through the years, private police look like and at times behave like public police, and there are also similarities of the job activities and responsibilities (The Debate on Private Versus Public Policing, 2007). But there is a huge difference between the two, in which the hiring process for public includes
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concept throughout civilization as rules and laws attempted to be by use armies of various kingdoms and other countries. Over the course of time a thought emerged that a more formal policing of the citizens could be accomplished by the creation of a police model that could free up military personnel while establishing law and order throughout areas with the premise that citizens could be coerced into believing that arrest would be the deterrent while protecting the public at large. This assignment will
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Technology is at a rise and growing at an incredible rate. Technology advancement gives criminals a whole new way or an easier way to commit crimes. Eventually technology is going to take away jobs from our police officers and other individuals working in law enforcement. We are no longer going to need police officers out on patrol monitoring traffic, we have high speed cameras to detect incident detection, and vehicle counting, traffic flow monitoring and even people who violate traffic laws like speeding
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some agencies including the IRS, Bureau of Indian Affairs that assist these law agencies on suspicious activities. They can implement on both levels, federal and state (Ekman, 2013). On the state level, there are sheriffs, state troopers and state police officials, and deputies. They patrol state routes and sometimes federal areas. They patrol the highways for traffic violations and civil and/or criminal laws. There are drug task forces, state parks law enforcement agencies, and attorney general.
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