Exam 2 Flashcards
Police Discretion according to “klockars”?
“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”
Percentage of adults US citizens that had contact with the police in a given year?
1999;(21%
2008; (16.9%)
40 mil interecations
3 categories of police activity
Arrest, coercion, crime fighting
Arrest meaning and arrest annually
- an outcome of police-citizen interactions
- hard partcof policing isn’t arresting its not arresting people
11,207,143 arrest 2014
coercion meaning and main point
- 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
Crime Fighting main points (4 types)
- a. Enforcement of laws
b. Prevention
c. Detection of crimes
d. Investigation
Order Maintenance
Police intervention in incidents that do not include actual criminal activity but often entail “interpersonal conflict or “public nuisance” ( wslker & katz)
Importance of Order Maintenance (examples)
- 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
Services of Order Maintenance
Helping people or communitie
- emergency aid, disaster response, licensing , building inspections, lost and found
- providing info
- illness
Service (mental illnesses)
- 1970s deinstitution of people struggling w mental illness
C.I.T: cops better deal with mental ill people
What do cops do? (4 clusters)
- discretionary decision making
- Situational, Organization, Communities, Individal
What it takes to be a cop?
- 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
2 types or police organizations
Horizontal complexity and vertical complexity
What is police organization? (B.A.G)
- Organization of people that matter
- bad organization arent assholes
- bag ; Boundaries, Activity, Goals
Horizontal Complexity
- how many units we have
- specific units per groups like bike control , juvenile, community
- putting the best cops out in that unit
Vertical complexity ( contigency theory)
- 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
Satisficing
All goals must be minimally addressed
People or areas have a zone of indifference where people dont care or care too little
Constingency theory
Org structure must match environment and the job of the organization or else the org will be ineffective
Institutional organization theory
Organization are very symbolic, they are surrounded by myths and ceremony and the response to kind
How to know something works or it is good?
uncertainty
- legitimacy
- police agencies are uncertain on what to do
Uncertainty leads to adaptation (copy cats)
Sovereign
Sovereigns
- can influence a police agency
- different agendas
- must be satisfice
- they decide on what is fashionable and what looks good to them
Organizational culture key things
- not really a theory
- people’s belief and values
- learned from an employee to the next
- shadow structure within organization
2 types of communities
Geographic and interest
4 demographics of communities
- Urban, suburban, rural
- Population heterogeneity (differences)
- Population change
- Community conditions (households)
