Police Issues

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Police Issues

• Chapter 8

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Criminal Justice Crime Line

• Divided into three sections
• Role of the police most crucial
• Police make more decisions
• Police a more diverse group

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Police Culture and Personality

• Police culture -- the Blue Curtain
• Developing a personality - cynical,
  authoritarian, and self-disciplined
• Police Style
• The Crime Fighter
• The Social Agent
• The Law Enforcer
• The Watchman

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Influences on Police Styles

• Departmental (p. 307)
• Environment
• Situational
• Extralegal

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Police Culture

• Join the force to help others
• Disillusioned when they face reality of life
• Culture helps them adjust to
• honor
• loyalty
• individualism

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Police Types

• Typology
• a style of working
• an attitude
• an approach

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Pro / Con Police Education

• Pro
• Better rapport with public
• Less violence
• Less disciplinary problems
• Greater acceptance of others
• React better in stress

• Con
• Less minorities
• No change to beat police
• More expensive

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Minority Police Officers

• Face double marginality
• Appreciate and blossem in equality promotion
• More aggressive
• Problems with assignemnts -- black in black part
  of town / Asian in Asian / etc.

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Women police

• Stigmatized (clothes / male job / other females)
• Better arrest records / better with civilians
• Less use of force
• More emotionally stable

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Police Violence

• Die Hard (p. 322)
• Rodney King
• Police history condones
• Deadly force (p. 325 - 327)
• Police deaths (p. 328)
• Figure 8.4 why less in New York?

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Suing the Police

• Not permissible unless
• excessive for for the situation
• failed to act
• Monell v. Dept of Social Services (p. 332)
• Deliberate indifference v. negligence

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Police Corruption

• Serpico
• Knapp Commission
• grass eaters
• meat eaters

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Corruption

• Internal (p. 335)
• Selective enforcement
• Active criminality
• Bribery and extortion
• Mooching
• Chiseling / Shopping / Shakedown / Favoritism /
  Abuse of authority

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Causes of Police Corruption

• Self discipline
• Controlling organization
• Societys ambivalence
• No accountability
• Code of silence