CRIMINOLOGY POLICING ROLES STYLES AND FUNCTIONS LESSON 6

CRIMINOLOGY POLICING: ROLES STYLES AND FUNCTIONS LESSON 6 Stankiewicz

ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS • What are the expectations of the police in US Society? • What are the characteristics of police work? • What are Wilson’s Operational styles in policing? • How did Sociologist John Broderick classify police officers? • What are the basic functions of police work? • What is the role of the detective/investigator in police work? • What is law enforcement’s response to terrorism (brief overview)?

DEFINITIONS • Role: The rights and responsibilities associated with a position in society. Has expectations • Role Expectation: The behavior and actions society expects from the people that have a certain role • Role Conflict: Disconnect between what society demands, what is reality and what is possible • _______________________________________________

WHAT DO YOU THINK ARE THE ROLES OF POLICE IN AMERICAN SOCIETY?

US SOCIETY’S EXPECTATION OF POLICE • The Police • Are community leaders in public safety. Role is potentially dangerous • Possess broad discretion (and expected to use it correctly) • Solve psychological and technological problems for people in the short term (conflict resolution) • Occasionally serve in a hostile or dangerous environment

CHARACTERISTICS OF POLICE WORK - 1 • Quick decision making • __________________________________________ • Under potential second guessing • _____________________ • Decisions if wrong have dire consequences • Loss of life • _____________________

CHARACTERISTICS OF POLICE WORK - 2 • Independent • ______________________________

CHARACTERISTICS OF POLICE WORK - 3 • The Dirty Work • ________________________________ • Injuries • _________________ • As victims or offender

CHARACTERISTICS OF POLICE WORK- 4 • Danger • Law enforcement work involves ___________________ • Well ……. Duh • ______________________________________ • Answer________________

WILSON’S LAW ENFORCEMENT (POLICE) OPERATIONAL STYLES • Operational Styles: The different overall approaches to police work • _____________________ • Watchman Style • _____________________ • Ref: Political scientist James Q Wilson

LEGALISTIC STYLE (WILSON) • _______________________________________________ • More arrests, safer the community (theoretically) • _______________________

WATCHMAN STYLE (WILSON) • Emphasis on informal means to resolving disputes and problems • ______________________________________ • Style most commonly found in ____________________

SERVICE STYLE (WILSON) • Emphasis on helping the community, as opposed to enforcing the law • ________________________________________ • ___________________

WHICH STYLE WOULD WILSON SAY IS MOST APPLICABLE TO: • Boston? • Compton (inner city LA)? • Scarborough?

BRODERICK’S LAW ENFORCEMENT (POLICE) OPERATIONAL STYLES • Sociologist John Broderick classified police officers by their degree of commitment to maintaining order and their respect for due process • _______________________________________________

ENFORCERS (BRODERICK) • ____________________________ • Little respect for ______________

IDEALISTS (BRODERICK) • Emphasis is on both __________________________

OPTIMISTS (BRODERICK) • Emphasis is on due process • Little priority for social order

REALISTS (BRODERICK) • _______________________ • Little emphasis given to ____________

CLASSIFICATION OF OFFICERS BY AUTHORITY USE • ______ __ • Enforcers • ___________ __

PROFESSIONALS • _______________________ ________valuable police officers

ENFORCERS • Officers have passion for job, for enforcing the law, for taking decisive action • ___________________________ ____________

• _____________ • Have difficult time taking action or make arrests, indecisive • _________________________ _________

AVOIDERS • Have neither passion or perspective • ____________________________ _________ • Collecting a paycheck – My Opinion

POLICE FUNCTIONS • Patrol • Investigation • Traffic • Drug Enforcement

POLICE FUNCTIONS - PATROL • Preventive Patrol • _____________ • Out and about, Random • Directed patrol • _______

POLICE FUNCTIONS - INVESTIGATION • The _________ ___ for people and things to reconstruct the circumstances of an illegal act, apprehend or determine the guilty party, and _________________ ______

POLICE FUNCTIONS - INVESTIGATIVE FUNCTIONS • Locate witnesses and suspects • Interrogate suspects • Arrest criminals • Write reports • Collect, preserve, and analyze evidence • Recover property • Interview witnesses • Seize contraband • Prepare cases and testify in court

POLICE FUNCTIONS - TRAFFIC • _____________ ___ • Recommend traffic engineering changes to help flow of traffic and promote safety

POLICE FUNCTIONS – DRUG ENFORCEMENT • ________ • Crop eradication • Smuggling • _______________ • Often work with Feds on this

LAW ENFORCEMENT’S RESPONSE TO TERRORISM – GENERAL POLICY PRINCIPLES • No concessions to terrorists • __________________ • Isolate and apply pressure to states (countries) that support terrorism (Federal) • __________________ ______

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