Chapter 15 The Future of Police Administration Flashcards
- These officers are in the perfect position to detect the possibility of unethical behavior and step in before it occurs.
Line officers
- One who earns the respect of others and can respect oneself.
Courageous self-contained ethical leadership agent.
- Procedures adopted by military, police, and governments to assist in preventing, reacting to, and investigating terrorist acts.
Counterterrorism
- The process by which individuals aligned their ideology with that of a group and commit themselves to achieving the group’s goals through violence.
Radicalization
- Historically, many people believed that terrorist were more interested in…
Capturing media and other attention rather than killing large numbers of people. Now we know better.
- We have learned that the terrorists that wreak the most havoc are those small groups motivated by…
political, ideological, or religious zeal and can blend in with general population.
- Police must invest in intelligence gathering and sharing through community outreach and interagency communication to deal with this source of terrorism.
Radicalization within a community.
- In the coming years, police agencies will need to focus resources on both sources of terrorism:
Radicalization within a community.
Radicalization directed from foreign countries.
- With this source of terrorism, intelligence sharing becomes even more critical.
Terrorism directed from abroad.
- Regardless of the source, police will need to understand how terrorists…
Are radicalized and how they organize themselves.
- Police agencies might track foreign-born or domestic radicals through…
Intelligence fusion centers or similar interagency task forces.
- If terror groups organize within local communities, the police should…
Focus on sources of radicalization within these communities.
- A 2007 national Institute of Justice study revealed that radicalization of correctional clients is occurring in prison mostly through…
Personal relationships among inmates.
- The radicalization process for inmates begins with a political or religious conversion through…
Extremist teachings, ultimately leading some inmates to commit violent acts once they have been released from prison.
- Citizens tend to respond more favorably to outreach efforts of state, county, and local police, rather than the federal level, affirming the…
Critical role of local police in combating terrorism.
- Strategies designed to prevent radicalization in the first place.
Counterradicalization strategies.
- The strategies are just as important or more important than strategies aimed at reacting once a terrorist act has occurred.
Counterradicalization strategies.
- A particularly disturbing development in the rise of terrorism against Americans is the…
Radicalization of US citizens who go on to commit terrorist acts within this country.
- Police will need to face this harsh fact to contribute to the fight against terror.
That US citizens would wish to inflict terror or harm on fellow Americans.
- In the future as sources of terrorism shift and terrorists’ strategies and tactics change shape, to combat terrorism, police agencies must adopt…
Flexible strategies and tactics.
- Anyone managing the Homeland security program would do well to leverage support and contributions from…
Police organizations at all levels national, state, and municipal.
- To be most effective, efforts of the government to enhance homeland defense will need to adopt an…
“All hazards approach” rather than focusing only on counterterrorism or emergency management.
- DHS must develop mitigation and recovery programs for…
Natural and technological disasters as well as terrorist incidents.
- DHS must take an “all-hazards approach”-Defining it’s mission as addressing…
any situation that endangers US citizens.
- DHS must train and leverage local, nongovernmental organizations, businesses, and volunteers in…
Emergency management.
- The toughest challenge in using local police to support homeland security efforts is…
Coordinating the 17,000 to 20,000 police agencies that exist across the United States.
- This is the largest protective resource in the United States and now outnumber the police 3 to 1.
Private security services.
- Decisions about how to deploy local police for antiterrorist activities will likely depend on the (__ __ __) facing the jurisdiction.
(level of threat)
In this era of globalization, free and democratic societies need to collaborate to fight terrorism. If they can manage this feat then…
All criminals, including terrorists, may find themselves with no where in the world to hide.
- Across the globe, national leaders are debating how to incarcerate and adjudicate those suspected of (__ __).
terrorist activities.
- All signs point to the strong possibility that budgeting will become increasingly difficult for…
Police organizations.
- In recent years, this has emerged as citizens balk at rising taxes.
Outsourcing of some police services.
- Critics of police outsourcing argue that consolidating local resources with a larger police entities will…
Compromise citizens’ safety.
- This may lead citizens and business owners to hire private security firms to make up for the loss of police presence.
Outsourcing of police services.
- With the outsourcing of police services an interesting question remains: Can the government relegate…
Public Safety to a private firm?
- He must think like a business person to apply business principles to planning, budgeting, and other administrative activities.
The police administrator of the future.
- In the future, people may increasingly depend on private organizations for services, primarily because of constrained …
public police resources.
- He must demonstrate leadership skills and develop a comprehensive budget strategy that includes immediate measures for reducing spending and proposals for expanding funding opportunities.
The police administrator of the future.
- There is a strong trend toward applying ethical leadership and economical/fiscal management principles to…
police administration.
- The strong trend toward applying ethical leadership and economic/fiscal management principles will continue, thanks to a growing emphasis on..
relationship building and fiscal management.
- Police agencies must also take a more rigorous approach toward performance assessment and evaluation at the…
Individual level.
- When deciding whether to promote an officer, (__) and (__) would do well to take feedback from coworkers and community members into account.
(managers) (supervisors)
- Feedback showing that a particular officer is especially (__ __), should count among the criteria for promotion, just as (__) in the line of duty counts.
(customer focused) (courage)
- In making promotion decisions, (__) and (__) should consider how subordinates demonstrate ethical leadership skills, including (__ __) leadership and (__) leadership.
(managers) (supervisors) (level five) (servant)
- Individuals (__ __) should be required to assess themselves, identifying their own strengths and weaknesses.
( seeking promotion)
- It is important that all police officers, no matter what the rank, become…
Self-contained ethical leadership agents.
- Managers and supervisors can ask how well officers reporting to them leave their ego behind and for the community, the agency, and their colleagues. proceed with confidence and courage to do…
the right thing at the right time.
- To surmount hiring and training challenges in the future, (__ __) must develop fresh strategies to attract talent and offer (__) solutions to any (__) of policing that discourage people.
(police administrators) (creative) (characteristics)
- Many police agencies experience difficulty recruiting. The problem appears to stem from the widespread perception that policing is not a…
“real” profession.
- This belief, policing is not a “real” profession, was aided by notoriously low wages paid for police work and lack of applicants with…
diverse backgrounds or college educations.
- Pay has improved considerably. However, at the same time police work has acquired a reputation for being a…
Thankless job characterized by impossible levels of stress and danger.
- Police work has acquired a reputation of being a thankless job characterized by impossible levels of stress in danger. Thus, people with…
A college education may find other occupations more attractive and challenging.
- To draw qualified and desirable candidates, police agency recruiters have begun resorting to…
Incentives like signing bonuses and advertising campaigns similar to the US Army’s “Be all you can be”.
- With police agencies under close scrutiny for financial accountability, this type of training will probably become the norm rather than the exception.
Cross-Training
- Candidates who are bilingual, trilingual, or willing to master several languages will prove more attractive in the future as American society continues to…
Grow more diverse.
- These new technologies offer additional and less expensive avenues for building recruits’ skills.
Cross-training and virtual academies.
- Training in different types of tasks and job specifications.
Cross-Training
- Exposes employees to knowledge about the workings of the agency and such specialized tasks as investigations, and positions agency to deploy individuals where needed.
Cross-Training
- The ability to shift personnel seamlessly between and among job tasks not only saves money, but it also promotes…
“Knowledge management” in a “learning organization”.
- The retention of knowledge most important to an organization.
Knowledge management.
- The premise of knowledge management:If only a few individuals possess specific knowledge of a process or task and they left the agency…
That knowledge could be lost.
- This effect often helps a police agency develop more powerful solutions to problems.
The synergistic effect of people working together.
- Theoretically, cross- training ensures that expertise and knowledge…
remain in house.
- Development whereby recruits and senior officers take courses online allowing flexibility to take a course anytime rather than in person during prescribed hours.
Virtual Academy classes.