Enhancing Police Integrity

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Springer Science & Business Media, Apr 27, 2007 - Social Science - 276 pages

How can we enhance police integrity? The authors surveyed over 3000 police officers from 30 U.S. police departments on how they would respond to typical scenarios where integrity is challenged. They studied three police agencies which scored highly on the integrity scale: Charlotte-Mecklenburg, North Carolina; Charleston, South Carolina; and St. Petersburg, Florida.

The authors conclude that enhancing police integrity goes well beyond culling out "bad apple" police officers. Police administrators should focus on four aspects: organizational rulemaking; detecting, investigating and disciplining rule violations; circumscribing the informal "code of silence" that prohibits police from reporting the misconduct of their colleagues; and understanding the influence of public expectations and agency history.

 

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Contents

THE IDEA OF POLICE INTEGRITY
1
MEASURING POLICE INTEGRITY
13
PROFILES OF INTEGRITY
39
THE CHARLESTON SOUTH CAROLINA POLICE DEPARTMENT
63
THE CHARLOTTEMECKLENBURG NORTH CAROLINA POLICE DEPARTMENT
83
THE ST PETERSBURG FLORIDA POLICE DEPARTMENT
111
THE SECOND SURVEY
137
RECRUITMENT SELECTION AND TRAINING
165
PROCESSING CITIZEN COMPLAINTS
183
METING OUT THE DISCIPLINE
201
CIRCUMSCRIBING THE CODE OF SILENCE
229
ENHANCING POLICE INTEGRITY
251
INDEX
271
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Enhancing Police Integrity
Carl B. Klockars,Sanja Kutnjak Ivkovich,M.R. Haberfeld
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Carl B. Klockars,Sanja Kutnjak Ivkovich,M.R. Haberfeld
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abuse Academy agencies of integrity agency’s Bartlett Park behavior Bloody Thursday chain of command chapter Charleston Police Department Charlotte Charlotte Observer Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department CMPD code of silence community policing complaints conduct crime criminal Curtsinger Davis debriefing department’s disciplinary decisions disciplinary options discussion dismissal district drug efforts employees enhancing police integrity Ethics evaluation excessive force fellow officers fellow police officers field training focus groups incident Internal Affairs interview investigation involved issue Justice Knapp Commission KPMG Law Enforcement lieutenant line officers major motorist North Carolina Nowicki offense officer's organization organizational patrol Petersburg Police Department police administrators police chief police corruption police misconduct probationary officer problem problem-oriented policing punishment question rank records recruitment response rules scenarios second survey sergeant serious Stephens Sunshine Law supra note Suspension three agencies U.S. Department use-of-force violation willingness to report Womer written reprimand

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Bibliographic information

TitleEnhancing Police Integrity
SpringerLink : Bücher
AuthorsCarl B. Klockars, Sanja Kutnjak Ivkovich, M.R. Haberfeld
Editionillustrated
PublisherSpringer Science & Business Media, 2007
ISBN0387369562, 9780387369563
Length276 pages
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Law / Criminal Law / General
Social Science / Criminology
  
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