Stankiewicz

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