The Democratic Style Analysis

First and foremost leadership is a calling, you must have a vision and be able to cast that vision. A great leader will always remember when things are going well to look out the window at other people, when things are going bad, look in the mirror (H. D. Crisp, personal communication, February 9, 2016). The text explains two (2) (Gomez-Mejia, Balkin, & Cardy) concepts related to leadership theory both a democratic style and an autocratic style; with the suggestion that today’s executive should participate in the democratic style theory for the day to day activities with the exception when the emergency situation should arise (Gomez-Mejia et al., 2012, p. 156).
The democratic style leadership is a team effort, the democratic style leader will make the final decision, and however he or she will seek input from the group, and allow other to contribute to the overall effort and of mission and goals of the department (Warner, 2014).
The autocratic style of leadership is opposite of a team effort, the leader will make literally all the decisions without regards for the opinions of others and the decision reflect the complete personality of the leader (Warner, 2014).
The Compstat
approach is the hot item in today’s law enforcement with predictive analytics and data driven policing it’s a democratic style leadership and a overall team effort. Where administrators should be mindful, is to align the diversity within their agency along the same lines of the population in which they represent. Many departments today are utilizing the Compstat approach, and many times when the data suggest that enforcement efforts go into a certain area, you can be certain many of these areas are not of the affluent class of people. Therefore, many times claims can be made of racial profiling, targeting specific areas, and if your department’s majority of officers are White in a mostly Black or Hispanic area, it could make for a good argument for the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) for profiling.
This policy no doubt diminishes crime; it is a shift from reactive policing to proactive police enforcement efforts.
It appears that the crime rates speak for themselves showing a large decrease in the rate of serious crimes as well as murders in measuring them from 1990/2011 (Smith, 2012). The New York City Police Department (NYPD) is using a data driven approach in crime reduction and placing their resources in the right places at the right time that they feel crimes would be the most prevalent, the program is called Compstat. This type of program can be responsible for drops in the crime rates from five to fifteen percent (Hickey, 2015). If the NYPD went back to a more conventional style of reactive policing there is no doubt that the crime rate would begin to increase very
rapidly.