Chahpter 1 The Challenge For Modern Policing Flashcards
What is the basic police mission?
To protect and serve
Will the basic police mission of protect and serve ever change?
No, but the methodology in and through which police services are provided must change radically.
How do we get line officers, who encounter most citizens, to be morally and legally correct?
By ethical leadership competence that is demonstrated by all police personnel.
How do police differ from the military
Police exist to prevent crime and disorder while the military represses crime and disorder by force.
How should the success of police be measured?
By safe communities, not by the amount of arrests.
What is the change imperative
It alters lives, transforms societies, and creates enormous leadership challenges for police. The ability to respond and adapt to change in society, and to utilize change as a constructive force, increasingly makes the difference between success and failure.
What is the complexity theory
In many cases, surprising and sometimes abrupt chaotic events and circumstances create a need for change.
What is the evolutionary theory?
Other situations involve an evolutionary process though which change occurs gradually over time.
What is one reason for policing not keeping up with change?
Typical police response was often reactive and bureaucratic concentraining on methods and procedures with little imaginative or stregic thinking to affect results. Management and efficiency have received more attention than leadership and effectiveness.
What four things have provided the basis for a beneficial transformation in policing that extended into and will progress throughout the 21st century
Imaginative experimentation, increased acceptance of responsibility, as well as new relationships with the people served
What are three major areas of change
Community policing, technological progress, professionalism.
Will the response of agencies to technological advancements mark the test for effective leadership?
Yes, both in using technology and dealing with technological crime.
What is one reason why the achievement of professional status is very difficult?
Because it is difficult for an occupation that lacks national cohesion.
Success occurs in a rapidly changing environment when people and organizations reinvent themselves continuously to meet new challenges and redefined, goals.
At the most progressive level, managing change is about leading change.
