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Furthermore, Mangan told Spokane's citizens that they have a good police department, although the department has some severe restrictions regarding how many people they have working in the office. Mangan deliberated his concerns with the citizens that they needed to build the police headquarters up and he needs the citizens to become volunteers. The turnaround year for the police division was within Mangan’s second year when he turned his attention to making changes about the sector itself. While, Mangan was still open about his goals for the Spokane Community and willing to adopt a more community-based, proactive approach to policing, he needed to transmit his mission to all the levels of the organization.
There are four main executive styles that police executives employ in the execution of their roles. They include the administrator, the top cop, the politician, and the statesman. All these executive styles are dependent upon the particular external and internal roles and their time allocation for these responsibilities. In the two cases studies, both the new chief executives employ different executive styles in their attempts to reform their police departments. Captain Ed Davis employs the statesman style in running the Lowell Police Department (LPD) while Chief Ken Fortier uses the administrator style in his governance of the Riverside Police Department (RPD) which bear certain similarities and differences.
Chief Fortier made internal changes to policy and procedure with a new emphasis on how things were to be done in a more organized manner to include the way warrants were obtained and the allocation of vehicles in the patrol division. These measures were not well received by the department and when the Chief cut court overtime the all out adversarial dynamic between the officers and the Chief was an all out war. Chief Fortier attempted to deal with the police union regarding labor agreements and his agenda for the future but was met with extreme push-back. Dealing with Labor Unions is an external role that is one of the few attempts made by Chief Fortier to be externally focused. The police union ultimately felt that the Chief was against the interests of the officers and the mission became getting Chief Fortier out of office which would make the next five years a hard battle to make positive lasting change.
Moskos, a harvard trained sociologist describes what is was like to work as a police officer in Baltimore’s Eastern district. As a young new police officer, Moskos was placed in the Eastern district, which is a very high crime area, one of the most dangerous areas in the United States. Moskos contends that when officers are fresh out of the academy, they are usually placed in high crime districts. Since these areas are considered to be the least desired to work. So in a sense the ghetto becomes a real life training area.
"Innocent until proven guilty. " That’s always been the law, so why was Adnan Syed sentenced 25 years to life without parole? January 13th 1999 Hae Min Lee goes missing. Friends and family described her as beautiful, smart, responsible, and athletic (she played Lacrosse and hockey).
During the spring of 1987, Terry Mangan was offered the position of Chief of the Spokane Police Department (Sheingold, n.d.). Terry Novak, the city manager at the time, wanted someone outside of the agency to initiate change, beings how Spokane’s officers were complacent with their duties and objectives. Mangan’s first goal was to address the needs of the officers, who had substandard equipment and facilities (Cordner, 2016, p. 482). Mangan made the statement that “It became very evident to me that we weren’t going to go any place in this department with any community efforts unless we addressed some real fundamental needs. When I came here… people were working out of a basement with steam pipes overhead, World War II surplus lockers… and old, smelly
Captain Ed Davis was appointed as the Acting Superintendent of the Lowell Massachusetts Police Department. He was known as an articulate chief with a clear vision and management style in which he acknowledged the needs of his officers and the community(Cordner, 2016). His statement style of management was to restructure some of the internal operational and administrative with using his strategic plan. In doing so, he would need the support from outside agency and the community. His style of management was to listens to the needs of the community and seeks for assisting in the decision of where to built a new precinct.
COMMUNITY EXPECTATIONS OF YORK REGIONAL POLICE AS IT RELATES TO COST EFFECTIVE SOLUTIONS TO ALTERNATE SERVICE DELIVERY NOW AND INTO THE FUTURE This essay discusses options and opportunities for York Regional Police in planning for effective, efficient, and sustainable police service delivery, while ensuring community expectations are met in a changing economic and political climate. The opportunities discussed will incorporate a wide array of research from all policing sectors, including the local political landscape, Ontario Association of Police Services Boards and the expertise of stakeholder reviews on relevant Canadian, American and Global research perspectives. Within the research reviewed, several common themes and options are presented for consideration and implementation while managing community expectations.
Melvin Russell: I love being a police officer, but we need reform. Before I start to give my opinion Melvin Russell’s speech, I want to provide a foundation of why I choose Melvin Russell’s speech. My major life career goals is to become a police officer, needless to say that I stand behind in the support of police officers throughout the nations. This article is very important to me because it shows a different point of view of a controversial issue regarding police brutality.
The main example throughout the documentary was the “rotten pocket” example that is used to describe a corruption in the prescient where more than one officer is corrupt, and are cooperating to fulfill this illegal act. In the documentary, Michaels partner described how everyone, even up to the captain was corrupt and in on their ring. This is a big problem within police departments since other officers will lie to protect their own, instead of doing what is in the best interest of the station, and the criminal justice system. Many programs like the early intervention systems and the mixed approach to police accountability The main goal of these programs being implemented, is to protect the agency from double-crossing officers and protect the
From early studies of police departments and law enforcement agencies, their culture is described as authoritarian, cynical, distrustful, elitist, homogeneous, macho, misogynist, monolithic, pessimistic, suspicious, insular, socially isolated and highly resistant to change. Relationships between police officers and the communities they are sworn to protect and serve is often times tense and difficult to maneuver. Police departments can implement an effective mechanism for change as "fish rot from the head first. "
A civil rights lawyer, Mary Howell, included her input by saying, “We had police officers involved in kidnappings, rape, murders, drugs, bank robberies. There was a guy who used to do, like, bank robberies on his lunch hour. It was just astonishing- at one point we had four police officers facing first-degree murder charges” (Kahn, 2010). Following the spur of bad behavior from the officers, a new mayor and police chief were instated into the system, hoping to bring reform to the city. After holding office for some time, numerous officers were fired, the murder rate dropped, and relations improved.
The overabundance of media relating to crime has not only influenced public opinion but has also triggered changes for law enforcement personnel. The bias (or incorrect/incomplete) views of news media have contributed to a negative opinion of law enforcement officers. Television programs and movies have portrayed false realities of the lives of law enforcement
With approximately 18,000 police agencies operating in the United States, is reform even possible? I conducted a survey with both black and white respondents. The survey includes demographic information and a few questions that ties together the respondents demographic information and their thoughts of the police. In addition, I will discuss innovative strategies to improve the relationship between police and people
Detailed Description of the Crime The case, New Jersey v Dharun Ravi, involved a 20-year-old college freshman by the name Dharun Ravi as the defendant against the state of New Jersey acting as the complainant on behalf of a deceased student by the mane Tyler Clementi (Findlaw, 2017). Dharun Ravi was charged on 15 counts regarding sexual crimes, cyberbullying, hate crime, and invasion of privacy. By the end of the trial, the defendant was found guilty of hate crime, invasion of privacy and evidence tampering but was acquitted on the remaining charges (Hu, 2010). Ravi was sentenced to an aggregate three-year probationary term after serving 30 days at the at the correctional center.
