Organization of the Houston Police Department Budget & Finance Joseph A. Fenninger Deputy Director Legal Services C. E. Ferrell Deputy Director CHIEF OF POLICE CHARLES A. McCLELLAND‚ JR. Chief of Staff M. D. Slinkard Captain Public Affairs Regina Woolfolk Deputy Director Strategic Operations M. A. Dirden Executive Asst. Chief Investigative Operations M. I. Montalvo Executive Asst. Chief Field Operations K. A. Munden Executive Asst. Chief Technology Services D. J. Morgan
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provide for them and their families. They put up this wall and lose insight on the purpose of the officers and focus more on the threat of the officers. Community Policing starts with children and thus gaining respect from adults. Many times an offender
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Policing In American Society CJA/214 Policing In American Society The United States government and the police must have a relationship because the laws and how the American criminal justice system is set up and ran. The rights of the people are established by the government and in most cases have to be carried out and enforced by local police. The local police vary from size throughout the United States. As the government set out to make new laws‚ it is the police who have to make sure
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Throughout the history of policing the roles of women and minorities has been limited. Some roles of women and minorities throughout policing history include not being able to work a beat‚ not being able to be selected for higher ranking‚ Where there was a community made up of primarily minorities such as a Hispanic neighborhood more Hispanic police officers would patrol in that area and where there were more African Americans in a neighborhood that is where African Americans would patrol. The
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The improvement of police crime analysis and related resource allocation can be accredited to GIS technology. Even though GIS technology can be an efficient and effective process in policing limited empirical assessment has been conducted. There are four major applications that make up GIS in policing. 1. Computerized crime mapping/crime analysis. 2. "Hot spots" identification. 3. Improving command-level decision making. 4. Geographical investigative analysis (primarily offender profiling). “The
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Policing in American Society The goal for both the U.S. government and law enforcement is to serve and protect civil rights and liberties for all individuals‚ protect life and to promote community safety. The government passes the laws and the police enforce them for the good of society. The U.S. government has a hierarchy within the three branches just as law enforcement agencies have a hierarchy within their organization. Within these hierarchies there is a chain of command to ensure professionalism
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Community Policing and Police-Community Relations in the US context Community policing is a philosophy of policing which emphasizes partnerships between the police and the public (Walker & Katz‚ 2013). This approach considers cooperation between the police and the community as an important mechanism that gives the police better access to information provided by the community‚ which in turn can make the police more responsive to the needs of the community. Historically‚ community policing originated
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I believe the largest impact on policing has been made by the simple invention of the two way radio which has in turn been expanded upon with cell phone and mobile internet capabilities. I had read this in textbooks concerning the evolution of policing‚ but reading this article certainly helped to confirm it. The advent of the car and of two-way wireless communications systems brought about what it called an "incident-driven" policing strategy that relied on random patrol and rapid response in
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I define community policing as an effort for law enforcement to involve the community in improving social capital. Community policing is an important factor in promoting a decrease in crime. Community leaders and its citizens work with police officers to improve neighborhoods through community projects and services. For example‚ there are neighborhood watch teams‚ which help patrol the community to improve safety. Law enforcement also has community initiative programs that work with and help at-risk
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Policing is thought and proven to be a dynamic system which means it adapts to cities and communities (Fritsch et al.‚ 2009‚ p. 42). The attitude of the people along with social issues in the areas will affect how patrol officers respond to calls to service
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