Supervisor Book Flashcards
Police departments must be responsive to
Democratic control
Define politics
Pg 8- process of acquiring and maintaining control over a government, including its politics, administration, and operations.
Public policy’s is expressed in ______, ________, ________, ________, and ________ taken or not taken by a governmental agency. Pg. 9
Laws, regulations, operating procedures, decisions and actions
Public policy
Where politics and administration intersect, the method by which agency’s are guided and controlled. Pg.9
Word that in Latin pro (forth) and fateri (confess), meaning to announce a belief.
Profession
Specialized work, an emphasis on both line inspections of officers and staff inspections of functions, written policies and procedures, enhanced training, increased accountability, and widespread adoption of the bureaucratic form of organization. Pg 14
Military model
Comprehensive study recommending support for civil service protection for the police and enhance training and education
Wickersham Commission
International association of Chief’s of police
Formed in 1934 pg 17
The kidnapping and murder of the infant son of Lucky Lindy Lindbergh led to
Federal Kidnapping act which gave FBI jurisdiction on kidnapping cases. Pg 17
________ tainted police race relations across generations, creating a hostility toward, and an abiding suspicion of the police, often manifested by lack of co-operation
Lynchings pg19
Civil rights act of 1964
Invalidated Jim Crow laws
Forbids discrimination in hiring, promoting, and firing on bases of sex, race, color, religion and national origin
Title VII of Civil Rights Act of 1964
Peace officers standards and training commission (POST)
Created in 1959 California pg 23
Professional licensing that could revoke officers certificates
was seen as a means of improving community relations, which were generally poor before the urban riots and also contributed to their advent, and of reducing police violence, promoting more judicious use of police discretionary decision making, countering corruption as a competing model and redefining the role of policing in society
Education
Poplar in 1960 “we against them” propelled what? Pg 25
Unions