CRM/LAW C139 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Miranda Warning, Crime Prevention
12 Jan 2017
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Make yourself familiar with 3 eras, political, professional, now (bureaucratic) Vollmer (police chief in berkeley: crime prevention would be primary function. People outside of police agreed with vollmer that police needed to improve standards: because officers made judgements on their own. Personal discretion should be decreased (improve character of personnel) People believed that what might work with berkeley may not work with bigger urban areas: would being educated (police) make a difference. It (cid:449)as (cid:271)e (cid:272)ostl(cid:455) to i(cid:373)ple(cid:373)e(cid:374)t voll(cid:373)e(cid:396)"s idea. Physicians able to raise money through carnegie and rockefeller foundations. The critics: white middle upper class individuals were critiquing police. Most ha(cid:448)e (cid:374)o e(cid:454)pe(cid:396)ie(cid:374)(cid:272)e i(cid:374) poli(cid:272)e (cid:894)do(cid:374)"t k(cid:374)o(cid:449) (cid:449)hat the(cid:455) a(cid:396)e aski(cid:374)g fo(cid:396)(cid:895: they viewed the police as public servants. Average beat officer did not need education (only advance education) This push failed due to structural components of policing: officers remain in patrol for 1-5 years, tasks affect both inside and outside agency.
