Chapter 1 Powerpoints Flashcards
Peels principle
Mission: crime prevention
Strategy: deterrence through preventive patrol
Organizational structure: quasi military
American model
- tied to local & municipal government
- decentralized
- relied on individual authority
- Tremendous discretion
- soon carried firearms
- influenced by politics
London model
- tied to national government
- centralized
- relied on instructional authority
- limited discretion
- did not carry firearms
- National influence by politics
August Vollmer
Started the first clases of criminal justice, and started campus police, chief of multiple departments, PHD father of professional policing
Three innovations that revolutionized policing ?
Patrol car - 1920s
Telephone - 1877
Two way radio - 1930s
What was the side effect of from the new innovations for police officers ?
Police were now better connected to each other BUT
They were much less connected to the community
Wickersham commission report 1931
First national study of American criminal justice system
Found excessive use of the “third degree”
- means “best you until you talk”
What was he biggest finding in policing ?
Discovery of police discretion
- extra legal factors influence police discretion ( demeanor, race)
- there is a police subculture v them mentality
1979 Goldstein article
On “problem - oriented policing”
