A very interesting survey that Wright conducted in England was done online; a total of 1,591 police officers and 1,494 police staffers were emailed questionnaires (only 723 were completed and emailed back), and the results showed: a) 25% of police officers were not aware of the unit in their department -- Professional Standards Intelligence Unit, PSIU -- that specifically is established to handle covertly reported internal misconduct; b) 33% of staff were ignorant of whom to report misconduct to; and c) 41% of officers and 39% of police staff reported that being friends with the individual who was engaged in misconduct "would affect their decision to report" (Wright, 348-49). Police and the Media Author Jack Greene reminds readers in his book that historically police departments' relationships with the media tended towards "antagonistic, adversarial, and strained" (Greene, 2007, p
And elsewhere -- to a more civilian-formatted uniform is problematic, but the idea is worth pursuing. Authors Hahn and Jeffries explain -- through the research they accumulated -- that most people tend to "…shun or avoid individual contact with police officers" (Hahn, et al
S. At some time is accused of -- an article in the International Journal of Police Science & Management explains that there is "an abundance of scholarship" that investigates whether traffic stops and searches are conducted in a "discriminatory manner" (Higgins, et al
The article's three authors are all professors in university criminal justice departments; the theme of their research is by way of delving into public perceptions of racial profiling. They echo earlier polling data when they report -- based on results of their research -- that respondents that felt unsafe in their communities "were also critical of police performance" (15)
, showed that from 1998 to 2005, the respondents' responses didn't change much when asked if they had "a great deal" of confidence in police effectiveness. In 1998 it was 19%; in 1999 29%; in 2000, 20%; in 2001, 25%; in 2002, 19%; and in 2003, it was 18% (Shaw, et al
The Literature -- Citizen Perceptions / Racial Profiling / Police An article in the journal Social Forces presents information from a national survey of citizens' views of perceived bias on the part of police when it comes to racial issues. The three main issues that seem to occur (as reported by the survey) are the racial profiling of motorists, racial prejudice by police officers, and "discriminatory treatment of minority individuals and minority neighborhoods" (Weitzer, et al
The author posits that officers of course have "a moral and legal duty" to ensure all compliance with the law, by the public and by officers. But the literature in England, Wales, and abroad, indicates officers are reticent to "blow the whistle" on their peers (Wright, 2010, p
S. Department of Homeland Security offers a program aimed at law enforcement that we could base our own internal on- it provide the officer "the ability to identify the purpose of the protestor devices" or in this case the individual being arrested, the ability to "discuss legal issues" associated with arrests and also "outline the responsibilities" of the officer on the scene (Center for Domestic Preparedness, 2010)
As we have seen in the past when police force incidents have gotten out of control, there is a great outcry from the public. In Philadelphia, there was viral video that leaked of two officers beating a man outside of a takeout restaurant for nearly two minutes while onlookers in the background "told the officers to stop and that they were going to kill him" (Watkins)
The processing and analysis of hard evidence that is found at a crime scene can easily be processed in the forensic labs so as to find leading clues to the criminals. This is done through microscopes, specialized lighting system, DNA analysis machines and other computer aided machines (New Hampshire Department of Safety, 2011)
(City of San Diego Police Department, 2011) Differential Police Response Differential Police Response' (DPR )was implemented in the early 1980s for the purpose of maintaining "an optimum balance between too many requests for police services and too few resources." (Forst, 2000) DPR is inclusive of the following characteristics: (1) the decrease of operating costs; (2) the decrease of the ratio of patrol officers to citizen-initiated calls; (3) the decrease of the speed of response time due to a strong system of internal processing, dispatch and deployment; (4) decrease in the number of calls needing an immediate response; and (5) increase in availability of time for community policing and crime prevention
For Managers of the NYPD are employed with many tools of control and socialization. "Until recently, departments kept officers in cars to prevent 'contamination' by citizen contact, and regulations prohibited cops from making drug arrests, so as to forestall seduction by the mountains of money involved in drug dealing (Kelling, 1995)
" Conclusion All city police departments have an interest in improving the way the community perceives them. For this reason, police departments prioritize the following three initiatives: performance measurement; quality improvement; and customer service (Tos, 2000)
The Tidewater Police Department's drive is to increase the security of the public, care for each citizen, and uphold and preserve the laws of the land. We must decrease delinquency by efficiently working in tandem with other police departments and persons of the community to put into effect laws, impede lawbreakers, end illegal behavior, and increase the circumstances of living for all individuals within this society (Davis, 2011)
In addition, such philosophies and values serve not only as regulatory and guiding passages, but also serve as a way of counseling. Ethics are an important aspect of policing, particularly where differentiation between legal and illegal is vital (DeShon, 2000)
The majority of the states employ such a code in the course of law academy valedictions and as a result, put emphasis on the conceptions of ethics and values trained to workforces in the course of their academy teaching. While this is appropriate, we should strive to lay emphasis on the significant association and importance of the code of ethics and the oath of office as sustained obligations of a police officer's conduct all through his or her professional policing career (Kaptein and Van Reenen, 2001)
Even so, police departments need to have an adept and accomplished chief finance officer (Casey & Seay, 2010). They need to have both short- and long-term plans in place that make sense (Brittain, 2006)
To state the obvious, there are many threats to the reputation and perceived legitimacy of the police departments of the nation and this can lead to the disruption or reallocation of funding in a way that actually makes things worse in terms of crime rates, prosecution success and so forth. Even so, police departments need to have an adept and accomplished chief finance officer (Casey & Seay, 2010)
They need to have both short- and long-term plans in place that make sense (Brittain, 2006). The financing needs to be based on prior and expected results given what is planned for and what is going to be put in place (Moynihan, 2006; Moynihan, 2012)
They need to have both short- and long-term plans in place that make sense (Brittain, 2006). The financing needs to be based on prior and expected results given what is planned for and what is going to be put in place (Moynihan, 2006; Moynihan, 2012)