Supervisory Styles On Patrol Officer Behavior

The Dilemmas of Administrative Control

• Administrative controls within police departments affect the behavior and decisions of patrolmen cannot be denied

• Police administrators typically expect other things of patrolmen than to simply issue citations and arrest drunk drivers

Administrates have more access in a smaller setting than handling larger groups of officers. This reading did not really relate back to my research

Journal Entry 6- Police Bureaucracy 2- The Effects of Supervisory Styles on Patrol Officer Behavior

• Police field supervisors is to control the behavior of their officers

This reading did not really relate back to my research

Expectancy Theory and Police Productivity in DUI Enforcement

• Traffic enforcement does lend itself

Departments also provide field training for officers

• Training is given by an institutional perspective

• Training is often viewed as a means of reducing an agency’s legal liability or a seeming to do something about a problem

Training is a major key in order for officers to be successful and to reduce the risks of them either injuring themselves on the job or others. However, not every department has enough funding to provide officers with excellent training. More training needs to be done when it comes to working on officers’ bias. This can relate to my topic, because individuals have a subconscious bias that they may not realize they have. Providing officers with this training can allow them to be even more aware of some of the issues that they face internally. This can allow them to work on it, and fix their mistakes to better them not only as an individual, but also as an officer who deals with a lot of face-to-face contact; with individuals who may not look similar to what they are use to.

Administrative interventions on police shooting discretion: an empirical

Tyler

• The police need public support and cooperation to be effective in their order-maintenance role, and they particularly benefit when they have the voluntary support and cooperation of most members of the public, most of the time.

• Voluntary support and cooperation is linked to judgments about the legitimacy of the police

• A key antecedent of public judgments about the legitimacy of the police and of policing activities involves public assessments of the manner in which the police exercise their authority

• One way to approach the relationship between the police and the public is to consider how the public impacts on the effectiveness of the police in their efforts to combat crime and maintain social order

• In the case of police effectiveness in fighting crime, evidence suggests that police innovations in the management of police services may have contributed to the widespread declines in crime reported in major American cities during recent decades

• Weber argued that the ability to issue commands that will be obeyed did not rest solely on the possession or ability to deploy power.

• A legitimacy-based strategy of policing increases cooperation with the law by drawing on people’s feelings of responsibility and