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Exam 2 Flashcards

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Police Discretion according to “klockars”?

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“Whenever effective limits on his , her or its power leave an officer or agency free to make choices among possible courses of action or inaction”

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Percentage of adults US citizens that had contact with the police in a given year?

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1999;(21%
2008; (16.9%)
40 mil interecations

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3 categories of police activity

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Arrest, coercion, crime fighting

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Arrest meaning and arrest annually

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  • an outcome of police-citizen interactions
  • hard partcof policing isn’t arresting its not arresting people

11,207,143 arrest 2014

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coercion meaning and main point

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  • lets think about coercion as a scale

* how much authority a police officer has when presented into a situation and at the basica of doing their job

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Crime Fighting main points (4 types)

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  • a. Enforcement of laws
    b. Prevention
    c. Detection of crimes
    d. Investigation
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Order Maintenance

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Police intervention in incidents that do not include actual criminal activity but often entail “interpersonal conflict or “public nuisance” ( wslker & katz)

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Importance of Order Maintenance (examples)

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  • hardest thing for cops and varies based on each situation
  • ex. Directing traffic at an intersection with a borken light
  • breaking up a crowd of ghouls at an accident
  • moving the skateboarders along
  • quieting loud parties and boom trucks
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Services of Order Maintenance

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Helping people or communitie

  • emergency aid, disaster response, licensing , building inspections, lost and found
  • providing info
  • illness
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Service (mental illnesses)

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  • 1970s deinstitution of people struggling w mental illness

C.I.T: cops better deal with mental ill people

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What do cops do? (4 clusters)

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  • discretionary decision making

- Situational, Organization, Communities, Individal

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What it takes to be a cop?

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  • basic requirements
  • testing : written or civil service
  • academy training (post) max 800 hr of training
  • more material stuff in post
  • field training about 600 hrs
  • external validaty to see if they will make a good cop
    Annual in service training required
    FADS; force, arrest, detection, service
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2 types or police organizations

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Horizontal complexity and vertical complexity

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What is police organization? (B.A.G)

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  • Organization of people that matter
  • bad organization arent assholes
  • bag ; Boundaries, Activity, Goals
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Horizontal Complexity

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  • how many units we have
  • specific units per groups like bike control , juvenile, community
  • putting the best cops out in that unit
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Vertical complexity ( contigency theory)

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  • how to structure a police organization
  • contigenery theory; most effective structure is continent on the environment
    *simple processes and simple react better to simple
    Structure
  • complex requiere complex
    The wrong structure will genereal more inefficience
17
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Satisficing

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All goals must be minimally addressed

People or areas have a zone of indifference where people dont care or care too little

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Constingency theory

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Org structure must match environment and the job of the organization or else the org will be ineffective

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Institutional organization theory

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Organization are very symbolic, they are surrounded by myths and ceremony and the response to kind

20
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How to know something works or it is good?

uncertainty

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  • legitimacy
  • police agencies are uncertain on what to do
    Uncertainty leads to adaptation (copy cats)
    Sovereign
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Sovereigns

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  • can influence a police agency
  • different agendas
  • must be satisfice
  • they decide on what is fashionable and what looks good to them
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Organizational culture key things

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  • not really a theory
  • people’s belief and values
  • learned from an employee to the next
  • shadow structure within organization
23
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2 types of communities

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Geographic and interest

24
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4 demographics of communities

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  1. Urban, suburban, rural
  2. Population heterogeneity (differences)
  3. Population change
  4. Community conditions (households)
25
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Overall how does the public feel about the police?

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Americans view the police favorably

26
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What do we find about attitudes towards the police?

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  • 60% of Americans have confidence in the police
  • races different
  • females higher
  • adults rate the police better than youths
  • income
27
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Meta analysis

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Treats each study as a “case” and looks for effects across the studies

28
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Police situational

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  • poor suspect demeanor
  • complaint preference matters
  • more serious offense
29
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Multivariate

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Poice-citizen / why police do what they do

30
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Bivariate

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Each indep variable walks to though and eats as much variace as it can

31
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Mayonnaise Theory of Police Patrol

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We need a minimal dosage of RPP

- how many cops per car

32
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Response Time things to know

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  • 1970 assumed response time was related to crime
  • response time doesnt matter as victims delay
  • agencies that focus on response time had crappy interactions with victims

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