Readings and Outward Mindset Flashcards
What was DOJ given by congress in 1994?
Authority to investigate LEA for unconstitutionality
What are the most investigated unconstitutional items?
UoF
Racial Bias
Unlawful Stops, Searches, Arrests
Interaction with Mental Illness
What do police technologies create?
Unresolved issues.
What is the mandate of police?
Serve as guardians of constitution, protect rights of people
When police are viewed as more legit, this happens:
More cooperation and acceptances of outcomes
Can constitutional policing still be illiegitimate?
Yes.
What is the biggest cause of questioning certain policies / practices?
Race Relations
What is the greatest determining factor in how one views police?
Race
Blacks vs Whites: Did ferguson raise important issues to be discussed?
B: 80% yes
W: 27% yes
What percentage of black people had no confidence in the ferguson investigation?
75%
33% for whites
Is blacks view of law enforcement similar to other comparable questions like gender gap?
No, much wider.
How can you make officers comfortable talking about race?
By talking about it.
What percentage of homicide victims are black in milwaukee?
80%
What is the false equivalence between black on black violence and police shootings?
Don’t compare people killing people with government killing people.
Strategies to discuss race in department:
Begin discussion with small, diverse working group of employees and express
Define topics as starting points
Begin dialogues within profession
Engage entire community
Modify training to change culture
Introduce fair and impartial policing training
Who must start dialogues about race?
Police leaders
What can backfire in talks about race?
Telling officers to not be racists
What training are officers more receptive to?
Unconscious bias training
What did Kalamazoo do to help fix their disparate search problem?
Consent to search documentation policy
What are the violent crime rates of 1994 vs 2013?
About half.
- 6 per 100,000
- 9 per 100,000
What is the problem with crime metrics?
Leaves out how people feel about strategies
Build up your relationship _ for the public to think of you as more legit and forgive your mistakes.
capital
How did a Dallas chief end an open air drug market?
Youth programs first
Operations second
What should be emphasized over number of stops made?
High quality service
What did kalamazoo see while decreasing police stops?
Decrease in crime.
What happens when you focus on zero tolerance policing?
Real crimes are allowed to occur.
How should “stop and frisk” be taught?
Individual tactic, not wide-spread crime fighting idea.
NYC reserves high crime zones for ___ officers
Veteran
How much money did Camden lose for corruption?
3.5 million bucks
88 plaintiffs
What strategy did Camden deploy?
Foot beats
Anne Arundel paired up officers and ___
DMHP
New Haven avoids the use of these
Heavy Armor / Equipment
What is a challenge of BWV with current legislation?
Wiretap laws
What are the five emotional intelligent skills?
Self Awareness Self Regulation Motivation Empathy Social Skill
What is knowing ones emotions, strengths, weaknesses, goals.
Having self confidence, and being self deprecating.
Self Awareness
What is the ability to control or redirect disruptive emotions that gives rise to a comfort with ambiguity and change?
Self regulation.
What is being driven to achieve for sake of achievement?
Passion for work work and challenges.
Motivation
What allows you to consider other’s feelings when making a decision? This allows you to attract and retain talent.
Empathy
What skill allows you to manage relationships and move people in desired directions?
Social skill
Who wrote the book on EI?
Daniel Goleman
What are corporations doing to evaluate EI?
Competency models
This proved to be twice as important as technical factors and IQ
Emotional intelligence