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
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
COP- community-oriented policing
Is based on data analysis of a constellation of sources, including intelligence, agency records, and scientific research.
EBP- evidence-based policing
Based on premise that when small infractions of law are ignored, it creates a climate conductive to more serious crimes being committed
ZTP- zero tolerance policing
Larry Sherman pioneered notion by analyzing crime date. He concluded that a relatively few places produced roughly half all crimes by concentrating on those locations crime could be reduced
Hot spots
If police elsewhere have to resort to force, it might create trigger riots there too.
Ferguson Effect pg 29
“I don’t want to end up in prison, so I’ll respond to the calls from dispatch, but other than that, I’m just going to ride around and not get involved”
Baltimore Effect
January 16, 2016, the police executive research forum.
PERF pg 30
The laissez-faire leader whoever takes a passive _____ posture
Hands off
Maslow: The needs Hierarchy- self actualization:
Testing one’s self, gaining sense of mastery