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5 results foundAuthor: Justice Policy Institute' Ashton, Paul Title: Rethinking the Blues: How We Police in the U.S. and At What Cost Summary: Despite crime rates being at their lowest levels in more than 30 years, the U.S. continues to maintain large and increasingly militarized police units, spending more than $100 billion every year, according to a report released today by the Justice Policy Institute. Police forces have grown from locally-funded public safety initiatives into a federally subsidized jobs program, with a decreasing focus on community policing and growing concerns about racial profiling and “cuffs for cash,” with success measured not by increased safety and well-being but by more arrests. Rethinking the Blues: How we police in the U.S. and at what cost, highlights the negative effects of over-policing by detailing how law enforcement efforts contribute to a criminal justice system that disconnects people from their communities, fills prisons and jails, and costs taxpayers billions. The report also highlights both alternatives to improve public safety and examples of effective community policing efforts. Details: Washington, DC: Justice Policy Institute, 2012. 63p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed July 30, 2012 at: Year: 2012 Country: United States URL: Shelf Number: 125801 Keywords: Community PolicingCosts of Criminal JusticeCriminal Justice ExpendituresPolicing (U.S.) |
Author: Wilson, Jeremy M. Title: A Performance-Based Approach to Police Staffing and Allocation Summary: Much attention has been given to police recruitment, retention, and, in this economic context, how to maintain police budgets and existing staffing positions. Less has centered on adequately assessing the demand for police service and alternative ways of managing that demand. To provide some practical guidance in these areas, the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office) provided support to the Michigan State University (MSU) School of Criminal Justice to review current staffing allocation experiences and existing approaches to estimating the number of sworn staff a given agency requires. This guidebook summarizes the research conducted by the MSU team. It highlights the current staffing allocation landscape for law enforcement agencies and provides a practical step-by-step approach for any agency to assess its own patrol staffing needs based upon its workload and performance objectives. Additionally, it identifies some ways beyond the use of sworn staff that workload demand can be managed, and discusses how an agency’s approach to community policing implementation can affect staffing allocation and deployment. This guidebook will be particularly useful for police practitioners and planners conducting an assessment of their agency’s staffing need, and for researchers interested in police staffing experiences and assessment methods. This guidebook has a companion document, entitled Essentials for Leaders: A Performance-Based Approach to Police Staffing and Allocation, which may be of particular interest to police executives and policymakers who are concerned about both police-staffing allocation and efficiently providing quality police service in their communities. Details: East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University, 2012. 84p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed November 9, 2012 at: http://news.msu.edu/media/documents/2012/10/1f1186b6-b4f5-4fc8-93e8-b228893295ce.pdf Year: 2012 Country: United States URL: http://news.msu.edu/media/documents/2012/10/1f1186b6-b4f5-4fc8-93e8-b228893295ce.pdf Shelf Number: 126901 Keywords: Police AdministrationPolice PerformancePolice Policies and PracticesPolice Recruitment and SelectionPolice StaffingPolicing (U.S.) |
Author: Sparrow, Malcolm K. Title: Crime Reduction as a Regulatory Challenge Summary: The police profession has much to gain by recognizing its kinship with a broad range of regulatory professions. Law-enforcement agencies, security and intelligence organizations, and social regulatory agencies all exist primarily to protect society from a variety of harms. Such harms include crime, pollution, occupational hazards, transportation hazards, corruption, discrimination, various forms of exploitation, food contamination, terrorism, and risks from unsafe commercial products. The core task for such organizations is to identify harms, risks, dangers, or threats of one kind or another, and then either eliminate them, reduce their frequency, mitigate their effects, prevent them, or suppress them; and, by so doing, provide citizens higher levels of safety and security. Agencies with risk-control tasks at the core of their mission are a special breed, and can learn a great deal from one another. They are fundamentally different from the other half of government, which provides citizens with services such as education, health care, welfare, or public transportation systems. Enforcement and regulatory agencies accomplish their task principally by constraining the behavior of citizens or industry. They deliver protection from harm primarily through the delivery of obligations, and they use the coercive power of the state to back up that delivery! They may, on occasions, restrict business practices, seize property, suspend licenses, and even deprive individuals of their liberty or life. Not surprisingly, given their use of such powers, these agencies are scrutinized and criticized more for their uses and abuses of power than for their uses and abuses of public funds. The price paid by society—in terms of governmental intrusion, loss of liberty, and imposed restrictions—has to be worth it in terms of risks reduced, harms prevented, or dangers mitigated. The vogue prescriptions used to improve governments’ performance over the last 30 years, largely imported from the private sector, have provided little instruction in relation to these distinctive risk-control tasks. The management guidance available has focused on customer service, business process improvement, and quality management,1 much less on the challenges of operational risk-control, behavior modification, compliance management, or the structuring of enforcement discretion around specific harm-reduction objectives. Risk-control agencies have been left to fend for themselves, to invent their own more particular brand of reforms, and to seek more specialized and relevant sources of inspiration. Details: Cambridge, MA: Regulatory Policy Program Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government Harvard Kennedy School, 2013. 18p. Source: Internet Resource: RPP-2013-10: Accessed May 30, 2013 at: http://www.hks.harvard.edu/var/ezp_site/storage/fckeditor/file/RPP_2013_10_Sparrow.pdf Year: 2013 Country: United States URL: http://www.hks.harvard.edu/var/ezp_site/storage/fckeditor/file/RPP_2013_10_Sparrow.pdf Shelf Number: 128878 Keywords: Police AdministrationPolice AgenciesPolice PerformancePolicing (U.S.) |
Author: American Civil Liberties Union Title: War Comes Home: The Excessive Militarization of American Policing Summary: All across the country, heavily armed SWAT teams are raiding people's homes in the middle of the night, often just to search for drugs. It should enrage us that people have needlessly died during these raids, that pets have been shot, and that homes have been ravaged. Our neighborhoods are not war-zones, and police officers should not be treating us like wartime enemies. Any yet, every year, billions of dollars' worth of military equipment flows from the federal government to state and local police departments. Departments use these wartime weapons in everyday policing, especially to fight the wasteful and failed drug war, which has unfairly targeted people of color. Details: New York: ACLU, 2014. 98p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed July 10, 2014 at: https://www.aclu.org/sites/default/files/assets/jus14-warcomeshome-report-web-rel1.pdf Year: 2014 Country: United States URL: https://www.aclu.org/sites/default/files/assets/jus14-warcomeshome-report-web-rel1.pdf Shelf Number: 132638 Keywords: Police BehaviorPolice RaidsPolice Use of ForcePolicing (U.S.) |
Author: Matthies, Carl F. Title: Evidence-Based Approaches to Law Enforcement Recruitment and Hiring Summary: Recruiting diverse, qualified candidates is a continual challenge for law enforcement. With the downturn in the economy came a flood of applicants, but also, eventually, slashed funding for recruitment and hiring. The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) has felt the recession keenly: Its advertising budget was cut by 60 percent in fiscal year 2009, and, in 2011, the Los Angeles City Council approved a three-month hiring freeze. The LAPD, and law enforcement in general, can clearly benefit from evidence-based approaches to evaluating recruitment programs and streamlining the application process. Using LAPD and city administrative data from fiscal years 2007 and 2008, the author estimates impacts - in terms of applicant numbers - for LAPD's recruitment efforts and proposes a revised model for prioritizing applicants. While the results of these analyses may be of particular interest to LAPD, the methods employed, as well as those recommended for future studies, are applicable to any law enforcement agency interested in attracting and identifying high-quality applicants more efficiently. Details: Santa Monica, CA: RAND, 2011. 161p. Source: Internet Resource: Dissertation: Accessed February 23, 2015 at: http://www.rand.org/pubs/rgs_dissertations/RGSD281.html Year: 2011 Country: United States URL: http://www.rand.org/pubs/rgs_dissertations/RGSD281.html Shelf Number: 134666 Keywords: Evidence-Based PracticesLaw EnforcementPolice Recruitment and SelectionPolicing (U.S.) |