Police Administration Book Part 1 Flashcards
In what year did New Amsterdam, now New York City, create its office of sheriff?
1625
In 1833, which US city became the first to have a paid, full-time day police force?
Philadelphia
In 1844, which US city became the first to have a unified day-night police force?
New York City
The rise of unified, full-time police departments in America was influenced by events in what country?
England
New principles, such as officers should be hired on a probationary basis was articulated in the _____________________
Metropolitan Police Act
What is the process of acquiring and maintaining control over a government, including its policies, administrations and operations?
Politics
Three reasons why there is no way to keep politics out of police departments:
- Police departments must be responsive to democratic control
- Public policy is expressed in the laws, regulations, operating procedures, decisions and actions taken or not taken by a governmental agency
- As a practical matter, politics flourishes in even the smallest agencies
What type of politics do we want to keep out of policing?
Highly partisan party
What model resulted in more staff positions to do specialized work, and emphasis on both line inspection of officers and staff inspections of functions, written policies and procedures, enhance training, increase accountability, and a widespread adoption of the bureaucratic form of organization?
The military model
What became the “Bible” for law-enforcement executives, who were guided by it as they sought to find the optimum way to organize and staff the units in their agency and achieve the most efficient operations?
Police Administration
Which 1950 for supreme court case ruled that segregation was illegal?
Brown versus Board of Education
What was legislatively created to set minimum standards for the selection and training of police officers?
Peace Officer Standards and Training Commission (POST)
They essentially constitute a professional licensing board and can revoke an Officer’s certificate to hold a job with any public on Forssman agency in the state that issued it
POST
What was the trilogy of major experiments of policing?
- Kansas City preventative patrol study
- Rand criminal investigation study
- Team policing experiment
This type of accreditation can reduce liability insurance costs, be used as a tool and attracting new businesses to a community, and stimulates community pride and confidence in a communities police department.
The Commission on Accreditation of Law-Enforcement Agencies (CALEA)
This is the development of police strategies and programs in partnership with communities in order to deliver custom tailored police services and solutions to problems, as well as a renewed focus on crime prevention rather than crime detection
Community oriented policing (COP)
This was based on the premise that when small and fractions of the law are ignored, it creates a climate conducive to more serious crimes being committed
Zero tolerance policing (ZTP)
This is a management control system designed to develop, analyze, and disseminate information about reported crime and to track efforts to deal with it
CompStat
This is based on data analysis of a constellation of sources, including intelligence, agency records in scientific research
Evidence based policing (EBP)
Police Executive Research Forum (PERF) Guiding Principle 1
“The sanctity of human life should be at the heart of everything an agency does”
This emerged as a collaboration between the grant awarding Federal Bureau of Justice Assistance and police agencies to encourage the refinement of existing evidence-based strategies and development of new ones
Smart Policing Initiative (SPI)
This is a focused police strategy built on the philosophy that visible signs of social decay often lead to more serious crimes in a specific neighborhood; emphasis then, should be on a strict enforcement of the law for even minor crimes of disorder.
Zero tolerance policy (ZTP)
Five elements of community policing
- A commitment to crime prevention
- Public scrutiny of the police
- Accountability of police actions to the public
- Customize police service
- Community organization
The five most common types of restructuring associated with community policing
- A decentralization of authority, allowing all levels of the department to have an increased level of independence and decision making.
- A flattened hierarchy, which collapses bureaucratic layers and allows for increased efficiencies and better communication.
- A reduce number of specialized units, with resources instead being devoted to the director delivery of police services to the public.
- And emphasis on teamwork, which promotes problem-solving and a provision of services by groups of employees.
- Increasing non-sworn personnel, which provides a cost savings because their salaries are typically less than sworn officers and which allows sworn officers to be used more effectively.