...Christopher S. Koper; Daniel J. Woods; Bruce E. Kubu Purpose The purpose of the study is to examine gun violence prevention practices among urban police in the USA, assessing their scope, effectiveness, limitations, and impacts. Design/methodology/approach A national survey was conducted...

..., as well as specific attitudes toward those officers involved in a celebrated police misconduct incident. Steven Chermak is the corresponding author and can be contacted at: Chermak@msu.edu © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006 Police misconduct Mass media Public opinion USA...

...). Reformers argue that restructuring police organizations in these ways is essential for community policing practices to take root. There is little evidence to suggest whether community policing has had an effect on the formal organizational structures of large municipal police organizations in the USA[1...

... in the USA. Third, the case involves employment law, an area that has proven fertile ground for suits against the police. The article explores the case in detail as well as reporting the results of a survey of police mid‐level managers concerning the impact of intelligence on various police administrative...

... of 401 large, municipal police organizations in the USA. The results indicate that structural control is unidimensional, while structural complexity is not. This study also provides modest evidence supporting an association between structural complexity and control. In one of the most rigorous tests...

... a considerable amount of time to complete the survey. While there is an expectation of “24/7” VPSO service, long periods of time are available between calls for assistance (Wood and Trostle, 1997). © MCB UP Limited 2003 Surveys Administration Police USA The need to examine the potential...

... Organizational structure USA Hierarchy Writing about US police organizations in 1999, Greenberg (1999, p. 147) quipped, “Few people are offended when the rank structure is taken to task”. Indeed no other aspect of police organizations seems to attract as much criticism as rank structure. Since the early...

... classroom. Given the theory‐to‐practice gap that haunts police‐training authorities, andragogy holds much promise in closing this gap. © MCB UP Limited 2003 Police Adult education Training Learning styles USA The training of police at all levels has taken on a significant role in US...

... … ” Police Working conditions Partnering Teamwork USA Patrol has been recognized as the back‐bone of the police organization. It has been known as the police division that provides direct contact to the public while offering the most visibility to the community. Further, patrol is the first...

... MCB UP Limited 2003 Police Community relations Funding USA Community policing (COP) has become the dominant theme of contemporary law enforcement in the USA. Since the mid‐1990s, community‐policing has enjoyed widespread acceptance and adoption by law enforcement agencies nation...

... and counsel officers, increased use of psychological services for officers, and the establishment of police psychology sections within the American Psychological Association and the International Association of Chiefs of Police (Delprine and Bahn, 1988; Scrivner, 1994). Police Stress USA Work study...

... in a vacuum, police behavior is not only affected by the actual encounter between the officer and the citizen; police behavior is also affected by the environment of the encounter. Riggs (1998) points out, when democratic countries such as the USA attempt to transplant its ideas of democracy, the USA...

... involving force. Policy and training issues are discussed and future research concerns are presented. Standards Legislation Police Case law USA Graham applies to only persons at liberty. The court established that excessive force claims arising out of arrests, investigatory stops, or other...

... groups across the USA. While the range of behaviors that are unacceptable is fairly broad (Peak and Glensor, 1999), we suggest that there are four types of behavior that are particularly distressing to the minority community: selective enforcement of the law; lack of courtesy in routine contacts...

...‐town police department’s absence of “professionalism” and militarism is key to its community connectedness, the foundation of its efficacy. Police USA Community Organizational structure It comes as no surprise to criminal‐justice scholars that our understanding of both the processes...

... supervisors. © MCB UP Limited 2002 Police Women Perception Stress USA The Lone Star state, the second‐largest in the USA has a diverse population, numerous law enforcement agencies and considerable variation in the number of women working in these agencies. There are 627 municipal...

... of 41ft. We conclude this paper with a discussion of the policy implications associated with using gunshot detection technology as a problem‐solving tool to detect, reduce and prevent incidences of random gunfire. © MCB UP Limited 2002 Technology Acoustics Sensors Police USA Law...

... occur when a law enforcement officer denies a suspect his or her right to substantive due process while in custody. Case law Legislation Police Liability USA © MCB UP Limited 2001 Prior to Harlow, qualified immunity had both objective and subjective elements. It would...

... et al., 1999). In the 1990s, every state in the USA developed anti‐stalking legislation (Sohn, 1994). The purpose of this new legislation was to allow police to arrest a stalker before an attack occurred, thereby providing police with an opportunity to change the way they responded to stalkers...

... perusal of the social history of the USA during the early to mid‐1900s reveals a volatile chemistry of massive immigration and labor unrest, especially in manufacturing and mining regions. Nativist reactions to the demands of the laboring classes (composed mostly of newly arrived and unacculturated...