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an insider's look at cops, crime, and the criminal justice system
The author, a retired police chief with 36 years of experience in policing and police management, examines the general and specific nature of policing and how it is structured and implemented to meet its goals. An overview of the dynamics of the police world is followed by a discussion of the tasks and organization of a police agency. A pragmatic perspective of life within the police agency covers departmental jobs, civil service and reform, career advancement, and the selection and tenure of the chief. An examination of an agency's internal climate considers the shaping of the recruit, corruption, morale, waste and inefficiency, personnel development, and risk distribution. A chapter on personnel addresses the conflict between expectation and reality, identification of the unfit, the conditioning process, and pressures experienced by the chief. A discussion of the limitations of police statistics as a measure of police effectiveness is followed by a profile of "street" criminals and factors in their criminal careers. Other chapters cover the police functions of public service and traffic management; management problems, concerns, and opportunities; controversies within the agency; police legal limitations; police response to woman battering; and dealing with police unions and the press. The book concludes with a discussion of the planning and management of police reform.
Foreword / Norval Morris -- Preface -- Chapter 1. The police world -- Chapter 2. The police agency -- Chapter 3. Life within the police agency -- Chapter 4. The police organization's internal climate -- Chapter 5. Cops -- Chapter 6. The slippery slope of crime, arrests, and statistics -- Chapter 7. Street criminals and how they got that way -- Chapter 8. Service and traffic -- Chapter 9. Management problems, concerns, and opportunities -- Chapter 10. Controversies within the police agency -- Chapter 11. Cops and the constitution -- Chapter 12. Controlling the criminal -- Chapter 13. Responding to woman battering -- Chapter 14. External challenges, controversies, and opportunities -- Chapter 15. Myths, unions, press, weather, and crime -- Chapter 16. Reforms : setting the stage -- Chapter 17. Reforms : doing it -- Chapter 18. The future -- Bibliography -- Index.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-287) and index.