SOCL 3371 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Fourteenth Amendment To The United States Constitution, Crime Prevention, Crowd Control
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Mandates of police oicers according to manning: crime prevenion, crime detecion, apprehension of criminal suspects in an eicient, apoliical, and professional manner. Policing styles inluenced by: individual oicer characterisics, size of community, racial and ethnic diversity, economic trends, history and poliical structure agency, 3 styles of policing: Litle biased in how they inluence the law. Concerned with service to the community and ciizens. Employs alternaive strategies: oicial warnings or diversion programs. The quasi-military nature of police organizaions: with the military model is atracive to police. Efecive model: diference between military and the police. Use of discreion- military doesn"t have this, supervisor is not always with you in policing so they cannot exert the same amount of control as a superior can with his soldiers. Two oicer- used for safety issues but can only patrol half the area of single oicer units. Coordinate with photographers, crime scene techs, and coroner"s oice: traic enforcement.