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CRIMINOLOGYPOLICING: ROLES STYLES AND
FUNCTIONSLESSON 6
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 _______________________
• _____________• Enforcers• _____________• _____________
CLASSIFICATION OF OFFICERS BY AUTHORITY USE
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
• Preventive Patrol
• ______________________________
• Out and about, Random
• Directed patrol
• __________________
POLICE FUNCTIONS - PATROL
• The ____________________ for people and things to reconstruct the circumstances of an illegal act, apprehend or determine the guilty party, and _________________________________________________________
POLICE FUNCTIONS - INVESTIGATION
• Locate witnesses and suspects
• Arrest criminals
• Collect, preserve, and analyze evidence
• Interview witnesses
• Interrogate suspects
• Write reports
• Recover property
• Seize contraband
• Prepare cases and testify in court
POLICE FUNCTIONS - INVESTIGATIVE FUNCTIONS
• ________________
• ________________
• Recommend traffic engineering changes to help flow of traffic and promote safety
POLICE FUNCTIONS - TRAFFIC
• ___________________
• Crop eradication
• Smuggling
• ___________________
• ___________________
• Often work with Feds on this
POLICE FUNCTIONS – DRUG ENFORCEMENT
• No concessions to terrorists
• ____________________________________________
• Isolate and apply pressure to states (countries) that support terrorism (Federal)
• __________________________________________________________________
LAW ENFORCEMENT’S RESPONSE TO TERRORISM – GENERAL POLICY PRINCIPLES
SUMMARY