Police Department Organization Paper University of Phoenix CJA/214 February 15‚ 2011 The organizational structure of most American police departments is a bureaucracy with an authoritarian management style; the only exception is smaller departments which have a more informal management style and simple organizational structure (Katz and Walker‚ 2008). Most departments have a civil service system to govern personal policies‚ except for the smallest agencies. The majority of larger departments
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Community policing is a tool that allows police forces to be in close contact with the community. The purpose for this is to control and reduce crime in an area and to also establish a close relationship between the law and the common person. However due to the large amount of people who are victims of profiling each year‚ tensions are rapidly growing between the police officers and the communities that they serve. Even though the exact number of people who experience this is unknown‚ it is a big
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Rapids Community College‚ one of the oldest community college in Michigan‚ built in 1914‚ who has the best safety environment for all students and employee. The GRCC Campus Police Department provide safety and have full law enforcement authority and responsibility‚ including the authority to arrest individuals who commit crimes on campus. Campus Police Department also have a total of sixteen officers‚ three police cars‚ police bicycles‚ and is not open twenty-four hours. GRCC Campus Police Department
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impact of Police corruption on police departments and society Police corruption affects the police departments‚ and society. There are many reasons why the corruption of the law affects the citizens and other police personnel that are only trying to do their jobs. Police corruption can be defined as the misuse of police authority for personal gain. Personal gain in this context means anything gained though illegal practices. Police corruption can ruin the public’s confidence in police‚ and the departments
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Abstract The City of Columbus Mississippi recognizes the need for a new analytical unit. This is a proposal that aims to develop this new analytical unit in an effort to support all levels of the Police Department‚ to include command personnel‚ supervisors‚ detectives‚ and patrol officers. law enforcement agencies in. This analytical unit will obtain and analyze as much information as possible in order to identify crime patterns‚ trends‚ offenders‚ and develop correlations‚ to improve short-term and long-term
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March 11‚ 2011 Unit 6 Community Policing Project This is indeed one of the last projects for this term. I have had an awesome time in this class and I have learned a lot with the different projects that we have been asked to do. As I begin this project I will try to describe a few different things and hope that you learn as much as I do as you read this project about Community Oriented Policing and Problem Oriented Policing. These are the two different types of policing that I will be describing
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In modern American policing‚ police-community relations are essential for effective policing‚ however; in many cities‚ the relationship between the police and the community is strained and even volatile. The term police-community relations refers to the relationship between the community and the police‚ it “consists of both human and public relations” (Cox 279). For the police to have a productive role in society‚ the police must receive a level of reciprocity from the community to strive for better
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We all know that there’s a lot of racial profiling that happens in the police department but there’s even one criminal profiling. In my opinion I think they come hand-in-hand because when you look at somebody only are you touching them by their appearance you’re also taking them by the way they carry themselves. For example‚ if you grow up in a particular neighborhood where everyone’s always yelling and fighting then people are going to think you were like that as well. All because you grew up in
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Community policing is about working with the community‚ earning their trust and respect‚ and solving problems rather than simply making arrests (Edge 79). In the United States‚ between the years 2006 and 2010‚ a staggering 52% of violent crimes went unreported (U.S. Department of Justice 2012). This percentage is equal to approximately 3‚380‚000 unreported crimes (U.S. Department of Justice 2012). Therefore‚ it is important for citizens to be able to trust and respect police officers. If they do
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Success of community policing in Nigeria evidence from community. Abstract. Introduction. What Constitute Community? Jack R. Greene (1988) observed that the most significant problem in community policing strategies is the attempt to define “community “accurately. Greene found that in most community policing programmes‚ the concept of community is defined in terms of administrative areas traditionally used by the police to allocate patrols‚ not in terms of ecological areas” defined by
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