The Police, a Policy Paper
The Police, a Policy Paper

Author: Alan Grant

Publisher:

Published: 1980

Total Pages: 108

ISBN-13:

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Part I. Definition of the issues -- A. Introduction -- B. Absence of a theoretical base -- C. Police discretion -- D. Political discretion -- E. Resource allocation -- 1. Apportioning responsibility for crime -- 2. Apportioning responsibility for services -- F. Societal and institutional change -- Part II. Present solutions -- A. Introduction -- B. The constitutional organization of public policing -- C. Public police organization -- 1. Functional divisions -- 2. Human resource development -- (a) Recruitment and selection procedures -- (b) Education and training -- (c) Promotion policies -- (d) Labour relations -- Part III. Advantages and disadvantages of current arrangements -- A. Introduction -- B. Constitutional arrangements of public policing -- C. Public police organization -- 1. Functional divisions -- 2. Human resource development -- (a) Recruitment and selection procedures -- (b) Education and training -- (c) Promotion policies -- (d) Labour relations -- Part IV. Preparing the police for the future -- A. Introduction -- B. Political discretion -- (a) The capability-factor and the optimum size of a police force -- (b) Selective enforcement and the constitutional position of the chief of police -- (c) Human resource development -- (i) Recruitment and selection -- (ii) Education and training -- (iii) Promotion policies -- (iv) Labour relations -- C. Police discretion -- (a) Preventive policing philosophy -- (b) Use of detective resources -- (i) The re-active function -- (ii) The pro-active function -- D. Conclusion -- Endnotes.

Perspectives on Policing
Perspectives on Policing

Author: Holly Wheeler

Publisher:

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13: 9781634845564

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Can the police reduce crime? In 1991, when the first Executive Session on Policing concluded, the answer to that question was generally described as being in the eye of the beholder. Based on the scientific and practical knowledge available at the time, some well-respected criminologists and police scholars concluded that the police were not able to reduce crime. Promising evidence, however, suggested that if the police changed their approach to crime control and prevention, then they might be able to reduce crime. This book outlines the changes in the nature of police crime control conversations resulting from an unprecedented growth in rigorous evaluation research on what works in police crime prevention; examines what it means to be a leader within the policing field, and advocates for reframing leadership through the adoption of "learning organizations" to increase the capacity to fight crime; describes "rightful policing," which looks at elements of procedural justice in police encounters with the public as a way to organize police work; advocates for democratic ideals within law enforcement to combat the mindset that law enforcement officers are at war with the people they serve; presents the ideas for what police executives might do to alleviate the problems of race in contemporary policing; examines the term "black-on-black" violence, a simplistic and emotionally charged definition of urban violence that can be problematic when used by political commentators, politicians and police executives; summarizes current understanding of the effects of ongoing trauma on young children, how these effects impair adolescent and young adult functioning, and the possible implications of this for policing; and finally, describes strategies police organizations could employ to more effectively measure their performance.

Perspectives on Policing
Perspectives on Policing

Author: Holly Wheeler

Publisher: Nova Science Publishers

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781634845557

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Can the police reduce crime? In 1991, when the first Executive Session on Policing concluded, the answer to that question was generally described as being in the eye of the beholder. Based on the scientific and practical knowledge available at the time, some well-respected criminologists and police scholars concluded that the police were not able to reduce crime. Promising evidence, however, suggested that if the police changed their approach to crime control and prevention, then they might be able to reduce crime. This book outlines the changes in the nature of police crime control conversations resulting from an unprecedented growth in rigorous evaluation research on what works in police crime prevention; examines what it means to be a leader within the policing field, and advocates for reframing leadership through the adoption of "learning organisations" to increase the capacity to fight crime; describes "rightful policing," which looks at elements of procedural justice in police encounters with the public as a way to organise police work; advocates for democratic ideals within law enforcement to combat the mindset that law enforcement officers are at war with the people they serve; presents the ideas for what police executives might do to alleviate the problems of race in contemporary policing; examines the term "black-on-black" violence, a simplistic and emotionally charged definition of urban violence that can be problematic when used by political commentators, politicians and police executives; summarises current understanding of the effects of ongoing trauma on young children, how these effects impair adolescent and young adult functioning, and the possible implications of this for policing; and finally, describes strategies police organisations could employ to more effectively measure their performance.

The End of Policing
The End of Policing

Author: Alex S. Vitale

Publisher: Verso Books

Published: 2017-10-10

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13: 1784782904

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The massive uprising following the police killing of George Floyd in the summer of 2020--by some estimates the largest protests in US history--thrust the argument to defund the police to the forefront of international politics. It also made The End of Policing a bestseller and Alex Vitale, its author, a leading figure in the urgent public discussion over police and racial justice. As the writer Rachel Kushner put it in an article called "Things I Can't Live Without", this book explains that "unfortunately, no increased diversity on police forces, nor body cameras, nor better training, has made any seeming difference" in reducing police killings and abuse. "We need to restructure our society and put resources into communities themselves, an argument Alex Vitale makes very persuasively." The problem, Vitale demonstrates, is policing itself-the dramatic expansion of the police role over the last forty years. Drawing on first-hand research from across the globe, The End of Policing describes how the implementation of alternatives to policing, like drug legalization, regulation, and harm reduction instead of the policing of drugs, has led to reductions in crime, spending, and injustice. This edition includes a new introduction that takes stock of the renewed movement to challenge police impunity and shows how we move forward, evaluating protest, policy, and the political situation.