Policing at the Top

Policing at the Top
Author: Bryn Caless
Publisher: Policy Press
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2011
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1447300157

Chief police officers make far-reaching strategic command decisions about policing, armed responses, operations against criminals and allocation of resources yet they are often unknown even to their forces. In this ground-breaking social study, Bryn Caless presents their frank and sometimes controversial views.

Beat Cop to Top Cop

Beat Cop to Top Cop
Author: John F. Timoney
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2011-06-21
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0812205421

Born in a rough-and-tumble neighborhood of Dublin, John F. Timoney moved to New York with his family in 1961. Not long after graduating from high school in the Bronx, he entered the New York City Police Department, quickly rising through the ranks to become the youngest four-star chief in the history of that department. Timoney and the rest of the command assembled under Police Commissioner Bill Bratton implemented a number of radical strategies, protocols, and management systems, including CompStat, that led to historic declines in nearly every category of crime. In 1998, Mayor Ed Rendell of Philadelphia hired Timoney as police commissioner to tackle the city's seemingly intractable violent crime rate. Philadelphia became the great laboratory experiment: Could the systems and policies employed in New York work elsewhere? Under Timoney's leadership, crime declined in every major category, especially homicide. A similar decrease not only in crime but also in corruption marked Timoney's tenure in his next position as police chief of Miami, a post he held from 2003 to January 2010. Beat Cop to Top Cop: A Tale of Three Cities documents Timoney's rise, from his days as a tough street cop in the South Bronx to his role as police chief of Miami. This fast-moving narrative by the man Esquire magazine named "America's Top Cop" offers a blueprint for crime prevention through first-person accounts from the street, detailing how big-city chiefs and their teams can tame even the most unruly cities. Policy makers and academicians have long embraced the view that the police could do little to affect crime in the long term. John Timoney has devoted his career to dispelling this notion. Beat Cop to Top Cop tells us how.

Police Leadership

Police Leadership
Author: Jenny Fleming
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9780198728627

This text provides detailed theoretical and practical insights into senior police management and leadership and the various roles such officers may play. Marrying academic and practitioner insights, each chapter discusses areas that are commonly part of a senior officer's remit alongside practical 'know how', experience and advice from senior police practitioners.

Critical Issues in Policing

Critical Issues in Policing
Author: Roger G. Dunham
Publisher:
Total Pages: 628
Release: 1993
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780881337297

A reader to accompany the textbook Policing Urban America, the pair emphasizing the importance of involving community members in decisions concerning law enforcement, including tasks, objectives, and goals. Some articles have been updated from the 1997 third edition (first in 1989) and some new ones have been added. c. Book News Inc.

Leading Policing in Europe

Leading Policing in Europe
Author: Caless, Bryn
Publisher: Policy Press
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2016-06-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1447321200

Little is known about those at the command end of policing in Europe. Over the last two years, Bryn Caless and Steve Tong have had unique access to those at the top of Europe's police forces, obtaining detailed comments from more than a hundred strategic police leaders in 22 countries and presenting, for the first time, information about how they are selected for high office, how they are held to account and what their views are on current and future challenges in policing. Building on research conducted in the UK, this is a timely and unparalleled insight into a little-known elite in the law-enforcement world.

Best Practices in Community Conscious Policing

Best Practices in Community Conscious Policing
Author: Brandon Lee
Publisher: Dog Ear Publishing
Total Pages: 162
Release: 2019-08-19
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1457544830

“Humanize our collective experiences and bring others together who may otherwise remain at a distance.” The polarization of law enforcement and community members deepen as our nation continues to erupt into national protests. Trust has been broken and communities feel unsafe. We know the problem. The question is, “What is the solution?” COMMUNITY CONSCIOUS POLICING Join Training 4 Transformation, LLC (T4T) in Best Practices in Community Conscious Policing as we delve beneath the controversy to discover our shared humanity between law enforcement and the residents they serve. The goal and purpose of T4T is to “Humanize our collective experiences and bring others together who may otherwise remain at a distance.”

Breaking Rank

Breaking Rank
Author: Norm Stamper
Publisher:
Total Pages: 397
Release: 2005-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781560256939

The former chief of the Seattle Police Force offers a hard-hitting, candid assessment of law enforcement, discussing issues of gun control, prostitution, narcotics, and race in the process.

Mission-Based Policing

Mission-Based Policing
Author: John P. Crank
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 251
Release: 2017-07-27
Genre: Law
ISBN: 146650322X

The research revolution in police work has uncovered a multitude of data, but this contemporary knowledge has done very little to change the way things are done in most police departments across the U.S., where the prevalent form of policing is based on the traditional model of district assignments and random preventive patrol. Mission-Based Polici

The End of Policing

The End of Policing
Author: Alex S. Vitale
Publisher: Verso Books
Total Pages: 298
Release: 2017-10-10
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1784782904

The massive uprising following the police killing of George Floyd in the summer of 2020--by some estimates the largest protests in US history--thrust the argument to defund the police to the forefront of international politics. It also made The End of Policing a bestseller and Alex Vitale, its author, a leading figure in the urgent public discussion over police and racial justice. As the writer Rachel Kushner put it in an article called "Things I Can't Live Without", this book explains that "unfortunately, no increased diversity on police forces, nor body cameras, nor better training, has made any seeming difference" in reducing police killings and abuse. "We need to restructure our society and put resources into communities themselves, an argument Alex Vitale makes very persuasively." The problem, Vitale demonstrates, is policing itself-the dramatic expansion of the police role over the last forty years. Drawing on first-hand research from across the globe, The End of Policing describes how the implementation of alternatives to policing, like drug legalization, regulation, and harm reduction instead of the policing of drugs, has led to reductions in crime, spending, and injustice. This edition includes a new introduction that takes stock of the renewed movement to challenge police impunity and shows how we move forward, evaluating protest, policy, and the political situation.

What Matters in Policing?

What Matters in Policing?
Author: van Dijk, Auke
Publisher: Policy Press
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2015-08-19
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 144732692X

This topical book compares the implications of restructuring in the UK and The Netherlands, also in the USA, regarding police systems, policing paradigms and research knowledge. The authors argue for developing confident leadership and also provide a comprehensive paradigm to chart policing in the future while retaining trust.