Chp 1 Historical Perspective Flashcards
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Lieutenant Colonel Charles _______ and Richard ______, Esq., the authors of the first instruction manual, adapted their text from the 1803 military manual of the Irish constabulary police, entitled Military Training and Moral Training .
Lieutenant Colonel Charles Rowan and Richard Maynes
The force (LMP) was organized into ranks of s_______, I_____, s______, and police constables
superintendent, inspectors, sergeants, and police constables
1750-1900
Industrial Revolution and Traditional Management Model
1900 to present
Scientific management
1925 to present
Human relations and participative management
1945 to present
Behavioral management
1960 to present
Systems management
1980 to present
Proactive police management
The force’s authorized strength of _____ men in 1829 was arrived at by attempting to deter-mine, in as logical a to determine, in as logical a fashion as possible, the relationship between disorder and crime in each section of London and the personnel necessary to deal with it.
3,295
Another important component of this fledgling force (LMP) was the principle of _______. As Reith points out in his history of police, “ In England, each separate police force in the provinces is established under local authority which in the boroughs is the _______ of the town or city council and in the counties the ________ of the county council, comprising justices of the peace and county councilors in equal numbers. . . . There is no central headquarters, no minister or chief of police.”
local control
Watch Committee
Standing Joint Committee
…this concept was exported to America. As a result, the selection of constables and the election of sheriffs in the United States have to this day been strictly controlled and zealously guarded by their respective communities. The political need for _______ and __________ severely curtailed the creation of countrywide or metropolitan police agencies in the United States.This reluctance to consolidate or combine forces in light of _______ is a major issue for proactive police managers.
local control and the federal system of government
modern- day economics
In the United States, the lack of ______ between agencies has created a career ladder within the agency that has had the opposite effect: increased local control. The American promotional system leads to some special management problems in the areas of both ______ and _____.
lateral entry
training and control.
With the passing of the ______, many federal employees were placed under a civil service merit system governing conditions of their employment in an effort to reduce the political interference that had prevailed since the Jacksonian era. Shortly thereafter, civil service reform spread throughout the states.
Pendleton Act of 1870
The new era, created by the scientific management writers and leaders after 1900, gave rise to _______ in policing.
civil service reforms
Theodore Roosevelt Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th president of the United States, served as police commissioner for the City of New York from _____ to ____.
May 1895 to April 1897
They also had a strong sense of morality and viewed unregulated alcohol sales and widespread prostitution as evil. Similar to Robert Peel, Berman discusses that Roosevelt initiated a number of reforms that focused on the following:
• Adoption of ___________, such as rank titles and uniforms, to improve the image and identity of the department.
• _______ control under one command structure starting with the commissioner to address the system of fiefdoms under a politically connected precinct captain.
• A system of ________ to weed out corrupt and ineffective officers and supervisors
• Hiring standards based on ______ and _______ rather than political connections.
• Increased _______ to address job tasks and improve performance
• Reduction of _________, such as overseeing boarding houses
military titles and traditions
Centralized
discipline
competitive testing and a civil service system
training
nonpolice tasks
In their classic textbook on public administration, Nigro and Nigro refer to scientific management as the machine model, where emphasis is on efficiency, orderliness, and output. They cite Frederick Taylor as providing the four basic principles of this approach:
- Division of _____ and _____
- Unity of _____ and centralization of _______.
- One- way ______.
- Narrow span of _____.
labor and specialization
command and centralization of decision making
authority
control
They cite Frederick Taylor as providing the four basic principles of this approach: 1. Division of labor and specialization 2. Unity of command and centralization of decision making 3. One- way authority 4. Narrow span of control This, along with the ________ organized bureaucracy developed by Max Weber, became the basic conceptual structure for _________.
monocratically
scientific management
This, along with the monocratically organized bureaucracy developed by Max Weber, became the basic conceptual structure for scientific management. As Nigro and Nigro point out, the emphasis was on “ r_____, p_______, I______, t_______, and a________.” This model fit well with the already existing semi-military model of police organization, where the manager was definitely in charge of the organizational machinery.
rationality, predict-ability, impersonality, technical competence, and authoritarianism
In their early study of bureaucracy , B___ and M_____give us three stages of developing bureaucracies that are also characteristics of police organizations. First, _______ replace unpaid work by _______. Then a ______ component is added, and the owners are separated from ________. Finally, managers are expected to have _________. This has had further implications that are distinctly nondemocratic, namely, that “ bureaucratic authority . . . prevents the group itself from conferring the position of leadership upon the member of their choice”
Blau and Meyer
cash salaries
family members
clerical
management
professional qualifications
One of the thrusts of _________ is to have professional police managers replace political appointees, whereby authority is then conferred by expertise and professional standards.
scientific management
_______ served as a patrol officer under August Vollmer, chief of the Berkeley, California, Police Department, from 1921 to 1925. His career included being chief of police in F______, California ( 1925– 1928), and W_____, Kansas ( 1928– 1939); professor of criminology at the University of California at Berkeley ( 1939– 1960); and then dean ( 1950– 1960). In World War II, he served as chief public safety officer in Italy, England, and Germany ( 1943– 1947). From 1960 to 1967, he was the reform- minded chief of police in the C______ Police Department.
Orlando Winfield Wilson
Fullerton
Wichita
Chicago
O. W. Wilson’s book, __________, first published in 1950, became the most influential management textbook for use by modern police managers and police management faculties in the United States.
Police Administration
Basically, Wilson carried on Vollmer’s sound approach to police management under the main principles of encouraging the following:
- A professional police department divorced from _____.
- Rigorous police ______ and _______ processes
- Use of the _________ available for law enforcement
politics
personnel selection and training
latest technological innovations
Interestingly, Wilson was both committed to the professionalization of policing and opposed to ______. He felt that ________ and rules of seniority hampered the police chief in selecting the most qualified personnel for law enforcement and promotion to leadership positions.
civil service
civil service tests
Wilson organized his book around three basic administrative processes: ( 1) p_____, ( 2) a_____, and ( 3) c_______. In 1963 , he wrote, “ Wisely conceived plans are the keystones of administration; without them the entire venture may fail”. He went on to explain the key part planning has in his organizational scheme. Good planning, based on the study of needs and used as a continuing process, serves to ________, to implement the policy underlying its aims and purposes, to direct its efforts into the proper channels, and to guide in both training and performance. He saw the process of activating as one primarily of ______ and ______.
( 1) planning, ( 2) activating, and ( 3) controlling
bind an organization together
organization and leadership.