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Municipal Police Department's Use of Facebook

Police Behavior, Hiring, and Crime Fighting, 2021
Bradley D. Edwards, Dustin L. Osborne, Rychelle Moses, L. Ledford, Gabriela Smith   +4 more
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The Persistent Significance of Racial and Economic Inequality on the Size of Municipal Police Forces in the United States, 1980–2010

, 2013
Recent empirical analyses of the social factors that predict municipal police force size support racial threat theory by suggesting that the racial composition of cities leads to enhanced social control efforts; however, these studies largely ignore ...
Jason T. Carmichael, Stephanie L. Kent
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Diversity in municipal police agencies: a national examination of minority hiring and promotion

, 2013
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to better understand the institutional and external factors associated with African-American and Latino representation in policing at the line and managerial ranks.
Joseph L. Gustafson
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Goal Displacement in the Municipal Police [PDF]

Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice, 1979
J. F. Elliott, Mitchell H. States
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Integrating the Chief of Police into the Municipal Administrative Process

Criminal Justice Review, 1980
Police administration has been among the weakest aspects of municipal government. Frequently, the blame for the deficiencies in police administration has been placed on chiefs of police. The real problem, however, is not the people who serve as chiefs but the state of the administrative environment in which they serve.
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Municipal Police Administration

The Journal of Criminal Law, Criminology, and Police Science, 1971
William H. Hewitt, George D. Eastman
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Demand for factors of production in municipal police departments

Journal of Urban Economics, 1989
As the fiscal crises of municipalities deepen, the search for ways to reduce the cost of providing municipal services increases. In the production of police service, the use of civilians to handle administrative jobs has mcrease&( In this regard, the studies of demand for productive factors in municipal police departments becomes interesting.
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Police and crime in rural and small Swedish municipalities

Journal of Rural Studies, 2015
The allocation of police officers in a country is generally a matter of great public concern. Between 2006 and 2010 police manpower in Sweden increased by about 15 percent, just as the coalition government had promised. However, in various documents the government has been clear about the need of police presence all over the country and a network ...
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Municipal Police Administration

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology (1931-1951), 1939
O. W. Wilson, John I. Howe, Theo Hall
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Measurement and association in the structure of municipal police organizations

Policing: An International Journal of Police Strategies & Management, 2003
Aside from a few groundbreaking studies, there has been little empirical exploration into the structure of American police organizations. Traditional organizational inquiries have suggested that structural characteristics can be differentiated between those that represent complexity or differentiation within the organization and those that represent ...
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