CRM/LAW C163 Study Guide - Final Guide: Encounter Killings By Police, New York City Police Department, Afro-Caribbean
11 Jun 2018
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Lecture 7!
What is the goal of a workforce?!
Producing a homogeneous workforce!
Choosing individuals who conform to the “norms of the department”!
What do applicants display when it comes to finding an occupation? What if they have different
values?!
They display norms and values!
Those who enter with different values undergo a transformation and adopt underlying cultural
values. !
What is the problem with value systems?!
They are hard to change!
During the policing era in the late 1800s and early 1900s, what attempts were made to reform
police?!
Professionalize !
What happens when groups believe they are threatened? !
They develop feelings of resentment!
Withdrawal from larger society and solidarity within the group!
What influences recruits? !
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Most recruits had ave a background and exhibit characteristics that influence their decision to
join the force!
What are the characteristics of the value system? !
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Belief in the necessity of using violence !
Unpredictable nature of job!
Separate from the community!
No longer share community values, but replaced by policing subculture.!
Solidarity with other officers !
Code of silence: Police activities & protecting other officers. !
On what basis will departments assess individuals? !
Individual character:!
Mental, Physical, psychological, and educational and job history.!
What are some recruit characteristics?!
Generational: Family background!
Middle - class background: It’s a good job excitement!
Lure of prestige: historically & present day!
Job Security: Pay & Benefits!
What affects who will become and succeed as an officer? !
A system continues to exist where the attraction and selection of individuals based on
institutional norms and expectations affect who will become and succeed as an officer.!
When becoming a officer, what does the academy experience serve as? !
The academy experience serves as a socializing institution where the recruit learns what it
takes to be a police officer!
What is training equivalent to? !
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Moral socialization !
Stages a recruit entering the academy goes through!
Non-civilian !
Paramilitary !
Anticipatory !
What is the police academy a combination of? !
Degradation and reintegration !
What are the outcomes of the police academy? !
Pre- integrative Process: The underlying purpose of this process is the development of a
recruit’s view of civilian subordination to police authority.!
Privileged Position: Elevation of status and a relative degradation of civilians who do not
understand the contributions or methods of policing.!
What aspects of the job influence officers to withdraw into the norms and practices of the cop
culture?!
Public Scrutiny !
Threats to officer autonomy!
Department politics: rules and regulations!
What is the impact of officers job? What do they face? !
Isolation !
Face a number of demands and pressures – issues of understanding and appreciation !
Conflicting Views – Do Americans understand the challenges police face? !
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Document Summary
Choosing individuals who conform to the norms of the department . Those who enter with di erent values undergo a transformation and adopt underlying cultural values. Withdrawal from larger society and solidarity within the group. Most recruits had ave a background and exhibit characteristics that in uence their decision to join the force. No longer share community values, but replaced by policing subculture. Code of silence: police activities & protecting other o cers. Mental, physical, psychological, and educational and job history. Middle - class background: it"s a good job excitement. A system continues to exist where the attraction and selection of individuals based on institutional norms and expectations a ect who will become and succeed as an o cer. The academy experience serves as a socializing institution where the recruit learns what it takes to be a police o cer. Stages a recruit entering the academy goes through.
