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Race, Police, and the Making of a Political Identity
, 2023In June 1943, the city of Los Angeles was wrenched apart by the worst rioting it had seen to that point in the twentieth century. Incited by sensational newspaper stories and the growing public hysteria over allegations of widespread Mexican American ...
E. Escobar
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Elevated police turnover following the summer of George Floyd protests: A synthetic control study
Criminology & Public Policy, 2021Several of the largest U.S. police departments reported a sharp increase in officer resignations following massive public protests directed at policing in the summer of 2020.
Scott M. Mourtgos +2 more
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Suicide in a Northeastern Police Department
Psychological Reports, 2001A northeastern American municipal police department experienced a cluster of suicides in 1987–1993 but experienced none in the period 1994–1999.
M S, Lindsay, D, Lester
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Police culture, individualism, and community policing: Evidence from two police departments
Justice Quarterly, 2000According to the conventional wisdom, the police culture consists of a set of values, attitudes, and norms that are widely shared among officers, who find in the culture a way to cope with the strains of their working environment. Some research implies that the conventional wisdom is overdrawn, and recent research has begun to question it more directly.
Eugene A. Paoline +2 more
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The small‐town police department
Policing: An International Journal of Police Strategies & Management, 2002This conceptual article focuses on the small‐town municipal‐level police department, as a distinctive model within the mosaic of US policing. As an example of the success of a low‐tech, nonmilitarized, open systems model, the small‐town police department stands in stark contrast to its urban counterpart.
David N. Falcone +2 more
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“Difference” in the Police Department: Women, Policing, and “Doing Gender”
Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice, 2003In this article, the author reviews the concept of gender “difference” in relation to the criminal justice system. The author argues that the acceptance of women as different and the practice of doing gender, although initially allowing women entrance into the police organization, has continued to keep women police in subordinate positions and, thus ...
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Discrimination in city police departments
Equal Opportunities International, 1999Looks at the background and history of the US police in relation to the 14th Amendment and the Civil Rights Act 1964. Outlines the dilemma faced by the police and lists some common forms of discrimination. Looks at the trends in the type of people claiming discrimination and concludes that it depends on area but the tide is turning towards the white ...
Hassan Fakhro, Brian H. Kleiner
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Chicago police department communications
IRE Transactions on Vehicular Communications, 1962The chicago Police Departments new communications network is considered to be probably the most modern and flexible system of its kind in existence.
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Municipal Police Departments on Facebook
Proceedings of the 17th International Digital Government Research Conference on Digital Government Research, 2016Municipal police departments are leveraging social media platforms to support their missions. In this paper, we understand what they post on Facebook daily, and people's engagement with these government agencies on the social media platform. First, we collected and manually annotated 6,825 posts sent by four agencies (i.e., NYPD, LAPD, Baltimore PD and
Yun Huang +6 more
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Police Departments’ Use of Facebook
Police Quarterly, 2013Police departments (PDs) are increasingly using social networking sites (SNS) as a method of public communication. Over 75% of the largest U.S. departments currently have a presence on at least one of the three major SNS (i.e., Facebook, Twitter, and MySpace). However, little is known about how departments are actually using these sites.
Joel D. Lieberman +2 more
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